barkとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English barken, berken, borken, from 古期英語 beorcan (“to bark”), from the Proto-Germanic *berkaną (“to bark, rumble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with Icelandic berkja (“to bark, bluster”), Icelandic barki (“throat, windpipe”), dialectal Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”), Serbo-Croatian brbljati (“to murmur”). For the noun, compare 古期英語 beorc, bearce (“barking”).

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動詞

bark (三人称単数 現在形 barks, 現在分詞 barking, 過去形および過去分詞形 barked)

1. (intransitive) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).

   Synonym: give tongue

   The neighbour's dog is always barking.

   The seal barked as the zookeeper threw fish into its enclosure.

2. (intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
   • 1530, Tyndale, A Pathway into the Holy Scripture:

     And therefore they bark, and say the scripture maketh heretics.

   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, OCLC 913056315:

     Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed.

3. (transitive) To speak sharply.

   The sergeant barked an order.

   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 3:

     Plainly he was prepared to bark out an interminable succession of charges against the Wanderer.

   • 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     While McCarthy prowled the touchline barking orders, his opposite number watched on motionless and expressionless and, with 25 minutes to go, decided to throw on Nicolas Anelka for Kalou.

同意語

• latrate (廃れた用法)

派生語

名詞

bark (複数形 barks)

1. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
2. (figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
   • c. 1921,, The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, volume 11:

     Fox’s clumsy figure, negligently dressed in blue and buff, seemed unprepossessing; only his shaggy eyebrows added to the expression of his face; his voice would rise to a bark in excitement.

派生語

• all bark and no bite
• one's bark is worse than one's bite

語源 2

From Middle English bark, from 古期英語 barc (“bark”), from Old Norse bǫrkr (“tree bark”), from Proto-Germanic *barkuz, probably related to *birkijǭ (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergo- (compare Latin frāxinus (“ash”), Lithuanian béržas (“birch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰereg- (“to gleam; white”) (compare English bright); akin to Danish bark, Icelandic börkur, Low German borke and Albanian berk (“bast”).

名詞

bark (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 barks)

2. (countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
   • 1879, Friedrich August Flückiger & al., Pharmacographia...‎^[2], page 346:

     The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns. Those who are engaged in the business, especially the collectors themselves, are called Cascarilleros or Cascadores, from the Spanish word Cascara, bark.

   • 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time‎^[3]:

     Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks.

3. (medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
5. Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
7. The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
   • 2009, Julie Reinhardt, She-Smoke: A Backyard Barbecue Book, page 151:

     This softens the meat further, but at some loss of crunch to the bark.

8. The envelopment or outer covering of anything.

使用する際の注意点

Usually uncountable; bark may be countable when referring to the barks of different types of tree.

同意語

• (exterior covering of a tree): rind

派生語

動詞

bark (三人称単数 現在形 barks, 現在分詞 barking, 過去形および過去分詞形 barked)

1. To strip the bark from; to peel.
   • 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:

     Along the river freshly felled and barked trees told of the activity of beaver, and in slow current and in eddies the tops of their winter's food supply lay like submerged brush fences projecting above the surface.

2. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.

   to bark one’s heel

   • 2019 May 8, Barney Ronay, “Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam”, in The Guardian‎^[4]:

     Barcelona had been harried and hurried and stretched thin by the midway point in the second half. Tackles flew in. Toes were crushed, shins barked, ankles hacked.

3. To girdle.
4. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.

   bark the roof of a hut

派生語

• ringbark

語源 3

From Middle English barke (“boat”), from Middle French barque, from Late Latin barca, from Vulgar Latin barica, from Ancient Greek βάρις (báris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Egyptian bꜣjr (“transport ship, type of fish”),

Doublet of barge and barque.

別の表記

• barque

名詞

bark (複数形 barks)

1. (obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
2. (poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
   • circa 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116:

     It is the star to every wandering bark

   • 1817 December​, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, OCLC 1000449192, page 272:

     We know not where we go, or what sweet dream
     May pilot us through caverns strange and fair
     Of far and pathless passion, while the stream
     Of life our bark doth on its whirlpools bear,
     Spreading swift wings as sails to the dim air; […]

   • a. 1887 (date written)​, Emily Dickinson, “[Book I.—Life] Whether my bark went down at sea”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, First Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1890, OCLC 1001812663, page 38:

     Whether my bark went down at sea, / Whether she met with gales, […]

3. (nautical) A vessel, typically with three (または more) masts, with the foremasts (または fore- かつ mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

アナグラム

• brak, kbar, krab