furとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English furre, forre, from Anglo-Norman forre, fuerre (“a case; sheath”), from Frankish *fōdar, from Proto-West Germanic *fōdr, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“sheath”) (compare 古期英語 fōdor (“sheaf”), Dutch voering (“lining”), German Futter (“lining”), Gothic �������� (fōdr, “sheath”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-, *poh₂- (“to protect”) (compare Lithuanian piemuō (“protection”), Ancient Greek πῶυ (pôu, “flock”), πῶμα (pôma, “lid”), ποιμήν (poimḗn, “shepherd”), Old Armenian հաւրան (hawran, “herd, flock”), Northern Kurdish pawan (“to watch over”), Sanskrit पाति (pāti, “he watches, protects”).

The verb is from Middle English furren, from Anglo-Norman furrer, forrer, fourrer (“to line, stuff, fill”), from the noun.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /fɜː(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: fûr, IPA^(key): /fɝ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /fʌr/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
• Homophone: fir

名詞

fur (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 furs)

1. The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.
2. The hairy skin of an animal processed into clothing for humans.
   • November 17, 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter to the Countess of Mar

     wrapped up in my furs

3. A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel.
4. A coating, lining resembling fur in function and/or appearance.
   1. A thick pile of fabric.
   2. The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
   3. The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
   4. The layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.
5. (heraldry) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures, such as ermine and vair.
6. (hunting, uncountable) Rabbits and hares, as opposed to partridges and pheasants (called feathers).
7. A furry; a member of the furry subculture.
   • 2006, Shari Caudron, Who Are You People?:

     "You want to know what brings furries together?" she asks. "Furs are here because they don't fit in anywhere else. For real furs, this is the only place they feel comfortable."

8. (vulgar, slang) Pubic hair.
9. (vulgar, slang) Sexual attractiveness.

派生語

動詞

fur (三人称単数 現在形 furs, 現在分詞 furring, 過去形および過去分詞形 furred)

1. (transitive) To cover with fur or a fur-like coating.
2. (intransitive) To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating.
   • 2015, Tom Michell, The Penguin Lessons:

     The college water supply was practically undrinkable because of its salinity and the pipes furred up so rapidly that they had to be replaced every few years.

3. (transitive, construction) To level a surface by applying furring to it.

   Synonym: fur out

派生語

• furred

接続詞

fur

1. Pronunciation spelling of for.

前置詞

fur

1. Pronunciation spelling of for.
   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “The Beginning of a Longer Journey”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 516:

     A’most the moment as she lighted heer, all so desolate, she found (as she believed) a friend; a decent woman as spoke to her about the needle-work as she had been brought up to do, about finding plenty of it fur her, about a lodging fur the night, and making secret inquiration concerning of me and all at home, to-morrow.

アナグラム

• urf

Latin

語源

From Proto-Italic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr, from the root *bʰer- (“to carry”) (see ferō). Cognate with Ancient Greek φώρ (phṓr).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fuːr/, [fuːr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fur/, [fur]

名詞

fūr m or f (genitive fūris); third declension

1. A thief

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

• fūrtīvus (adjective)
• fūrtum (noun)
• fūrtim (adverb)
• fūror (verb)

派生した語

• Aromanian: fur
• Italian: furo
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: fura, furó
  • Occitan: fura
• Romanian: fur
• ⇒ Late Latin: fūrō, fūrōnis (“thief”)
  • Old French: fuiron
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: foron
    • Fala: furón
    • Galician: furón
    • Portuguese: furão
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: hurón
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *furittum (“petty thief”)
  • Italian: furetto
  • Occitan: furet, huret, fura
  • Old French: furet, firet, furret
    • French: furet
    • → Middle English: furet, ferret
      • Scots: ferret
      • English: ferret
  • Romansch: furet
  • Sicilian: furittu

参照

• “fur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fur in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “fur”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers