lambとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English lamb, from 古期英語 lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, reputed to be from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-.

See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk.

発音

• IPA^(key): /læm/
  • (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [lɛəm]
• 韻: -æm

名詞

lamb (countable and uncountable, plural lambs or (both dialectal) lamber or lambren)

1. A young sheep.

   Synonym: sheepling

2. (uncountable) The flesh of a lamb or sheep used as food.
3. (figuratively) A person who is meek, docile and easily led.
4. Lambskin.
   • 1934, Kay Boyle, My Next Bride, Virago, published 1986, page 8:

     They were as alike as prisoners, dressed in black silk waists and fitted skirts, with shawls of crimped black lamb across their shoulders.

5. A simple, unsophisticated person.
6. (finance, slang) One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
7. (slang) A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).

   Alternative form: Lamb

   Holonym: Lambily

   • 2003, Bust, page 88:

     Part of me revels in the campiness of Mariah’s butterfly metaphors and puppies-and-kittens existence. […] But I also genuinely love her music, including this album. I’m one of her lambs.

   • 2010 February 15, Greg Kot, “Mimi cuts loose: Mariah Carey concert at Chicago Theatre shows that the diva can laugh at herself”, in Chicago Tribune, 163rd year, number 46, section 3, page 6:

     Her latest album, “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel,” is her best work yet, a warmer and more subtle album that makes her more relatable to those of us who aren’t Mariah die-hards—or “lambs,” as she refers to them.

   • 2019 January 3, Rich Juzwiak, “In Praise of Their Diva”, in The New York Times, section D, page 1:

     This year, Ms. Carey debuted a new Las Vegas revue, and, to celebrate, a group of 36 “lambs,” mostly in their 30s and 40s, boarded a party bus and cruised the Vegas strip for about three hours.

   • 2020 February 25, Chris Azzopardi, “I Love You (But Do You Love Mariah Carey?)”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     But when I saw Mariah in Detroit last year during the Caution World Tour, I was a proud lamb in my tour T-shirt, my very adult body suddenly transformed into my 14-year-old self when she emerged onstage.

   • 2022, “Mariah Carey releases her exclusive Pride merchandise”, in WRMF‎^[2]:

     Pride Month begins June 1, and Mariah Carey is giving her lambs plenty of new clothes to celebrate.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:lamb.

派生語

動詞

lamb (三人称単数 現在形 lambs, 現在分詞 lambing, 過去形および過去分詞形 lambed)

1. (intransitive) Of a sheep, to give birth.
2. (transitive or intransitive) To assist (sheep) to give birth.

   The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.

アナグラム

• ALBM, BAML, BLAM, LBMA, balm, blam

別の表記

• lemb, lomb, lomber

語源

From Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

発音

• IPA^(key): /lɑmb/

名詞

lamb n (nominative 複数形 lambru)

1. lamb

語形変化

West Saxon:

Anglian:

派生した語

• Middle English: lamb, lomb, lambe
  • English: lamb
  • Scots: lam, lamb