hamsterとは意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• hampster (廃れた用法)

語源

Borrowed from German Hamster, from Middle High German hamster, from Old High German hamastra, hamustro (compare Old Saxon hamustra), probably from Old East Slavic хомѣсторъ (xoměstorŭ), хомѣстаръ (xoměstarŭ), compound of (1) хомѣкъ (xoměkŭ, “hamster”) (compare Russian хомя́к (xomják), Polish chomik), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kāmjas (compare Latvian kāmis (“hamster”), Lithuanian kãmas (“rat”),^[1] and of (2) Proto-Balto-Slavic *staras (compare Lithuanian stãras (“ground squirrel”).^[2][3]

Alternatively, a borrowing into Slavic from Iranian, compare Avestan ������������������-‎ (hamaēstar-, “who throws down (in this case: corn stalks), oppresses”).^[4] Displaced earlier term German rat.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈhæm(p)stɚ/

名詞

hamster (複数形 hamsters)

1. Any of various Old-World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.
   1. especially, the golden hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, and the dwarf hamsters of genus Phodopus, often kept as a pet or used in scientific research.

      The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.

2. Other rodents of similar appearance, such as the maned hamster or crested hamster, Lophiomys imhausi, mouse-like hamsters of genus Calomyscus, and the white-tailed rat (Mystromys albicaudatus).

同意語

• (golden hamster): Syrian hamster

派生語

• hamstering
• hamstery
• idea hamster
• rationalization hamster

動詞

hamster (三人称単数 現在形 hamsters, 現在分詞 hamstering, 過去形および過去分詞形 hamstered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches.

   Synonym: stash

   • 1974, Phyllis Knight, Rolf Knight, A Very Ordinary Life (page 43)

     Probably the city government knew that without that hamstering half the city would starve and they somehow got the police to lay off. It was in the little stinky one-horse towns that you had all the trouble.

   • 2004, Sharon L. Pywell, What Happened to Henry, page 50:

     […] in his bedroom in neat stacks — he always hamstered them away upstairs as soon as the morning was done. This year the gifts sat ignored […]

   • 2014, Edith Sheffer, Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain:

     […] eastern children frequently “hamstered,” smuggled, and begged across the boundary, especially after currency reform […]

参考

• gerbil
• guinea pig
• mouse
• rat

参照

Further reading

• hamster on Wikipedia.
• Golden hamster on Wikipedia.
• hamster in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.

アナグラム

• Amherst, harmest