bundobustとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Hindustani بند و بست‎ (band-o-bast) / बंदोबस्त (bandobast), from Classical Persian بند و بست‎ (band-u-bast, “tying かつ binding”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌndəbʌst/

名詞

bundobust (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 bundobusts)

1. (India) A system of discipline; organisation, arrangement, preparation.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 93:

     He was proud of his faculty of organisation—what we call bundobust.

   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 292:

     ‘Hand on my brother whenever suits you. I write to you because he is sure to make a bad bundobust.’

Further reading

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “bundobust”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 127.