chabukとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Hindustani چابک‎ / चाबुक (cābuk), from Classical Persian چابک‎ (čābuk, “quick, swift; horsewhip”). Doublet of sjambok.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɑːbʊk/

名詞

chabuk (複数形 chabuks)

1. (now historical) A long whip formerly used as an instrument of punishment in India and parts of the Middle East.
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 98:

     Shut your mouths and get back to work or I'll whip you with my own chabuk.

参照

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “chawbuck”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 185.
• Edward Balfour (1885) Cyclopaedia of India