golf ･の英語

語源

The word is first known in English from the 17th century as a borrowing from Middle Scots golf, gouff. Although the etymology is uncertain, the most likely origin is that it comes from the Middle Dutch colve, colf (“club”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kulbaz (“club”), related to German Kolben (“piston, rod”), Swedish kolv (“piston, rod”), 古期英語 clopp (“rock; cliff”), English kelp.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɡɒlf/
  • (Conservative RP) IPA: /ɡɒf/
• (General American) IPA: /ɡɑlf/, /ɡɔlf/
• • (New England) IPA: /ɡɒf/
• (Indic) IPA: /ɡɔlf/, /ɡolf/
• 韻: -ɒlf

名詞

golf (uncountable)

1. (sports) A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.
   • 2017 October 16, Adam Jourdan, Matt Miller, “In the rough - China closes Wanda golf courses in chilly northeast”, in Himani Sarkar, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 18 March 2023, Business News:

     In January, China’s state planner said it had ordered the closure of more than 100 golf courses in a multi-year campaign launched in 2011 to tackle illegal development in the sector.
     Golf has also been added to a list of Communist Party disciplinary violations, and is often cited in cases of graft.

2. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Golf from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

派生語

参照

• Michael Quinion (2004), “Golf”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.

動詞

golf (third-person singular simple present golfs, present participle golfing, simple past and past participle golfed)

1. (intransitive) To play the game of golf.
   • 1894, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work/An Error in the Fourth Dimension:

     Last mystery of all, he learned to golf.

2. (computing) To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)

アナグラム

• GLOF, flog