candyとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English sugre candy, from Old French sucre candi (字義どおりに “candied sugar”), from Arabic سُكَّر قَنْدِي‎ (sukkar qandī), from Arabic قَنْد‎ (qand, “rock candy”), from Persian کند‎ (kand); likely from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “piece, fragment, candied sugar, dried molasses”), root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu; compare Tamil கண்டு (kaṇṭu, “hard candy”).^[1]

名詞

candy (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 candies)

1. (uncountable, chiefly Canada, 米国用法, Philippines) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
   • 1991, Brayfield, Celia, The Prince:

     They came down to buy sugar, flour, saltfish or candy from Nana, to collect letters and exchange gossip.

2. (countable, chiefly Canada, 米国用法, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
   • 1991, Ann Granger, A Season for Murder:

     Unwholesome pink and yellow candies were sold from trays.

3. (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.
4. (uncountable) An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.

   candy kid; candy raver

   • 2013, Kristen Lynn Harkey, State of Summer: Love and Misadventure of a College Student‎^[2]:

     Then while our hands were still connected, he slid a colorful beaded bracelet among the many others he had off of his arm and then onto my wrist without having to break our intertwined hands. "And there you have it! Your first piece of kandi."

   • [2016, Susie Dent, Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain‎^[3]:

     The mantra of the rave is PLUR: peace, love, unity, respect, while the tribal badge is kandi: colourful bracelets made out of chunky beads (かつ not the same as candy, the drugs that might also feature, such as E または Molly).

   • [2021, Samantha Durbin, Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s‎^[4]:

     The first candy bracelet I made was for myself. I alternated blue, orange, and glow-in-the-dark beads with letter beads that spelled “Ferari” to represent my (first) raver sobriquet, Ferrari Ravioli. (Yes, I spelled it wrong. I didn’t notice my typo at the time.)
     Side note: this is now referred to as “kandi” bracelets, but we spelled it the old-fashioned way.

別の表記

• (rave accessory): kandi

同意語

• (confection): confectionery, sweets (英国用法), lollies (Australia), sugar candy (米国用法)
• (piece of candy): sweet (英国用法), lolly (Australia)

派生語

派生した語

• → Cebuano: kendi
• → Hindi: कैंडी (kaiṇḍī)
• → Hopi: kyenti
• → Japanese: キャンディ (kyandi)
• → Tagalog: kendi

動詞

candy (三人称単数 現在形 candies, 現在分詞 candying, 過去形および過去分詞形 candied)

1. (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
2. (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.

   Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

3. (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

参考

• �� (Unicode candy symbol)

参照

語源 2

From Marathi खंडी (khaṇḍī), from Sanskrit खण्डन (khaṇḍana), from root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”).

別の表記

• candee, candie, candil, kandy

名詞

candy (複数形 candies)

1. (obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

同意語

• maunee