mo・gulの英語

語源 1

Figurative use of Moghul, which originally meant Mongol, or person of Mongolian descent. In this context, it refers to the Mughal Empire (Mughal being Persian or Arabic for "Mongol") of the Indian subcontinent that existed between 1526 and 1857: the early Mughal emperors claimed a heritage dating back to the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan. The modern meaning of the word is supposedly derived from the storied riches of the Mughal emperors, which, for example, produced the Taj Mahal.

名詞

mogul (plural moguls)

1. A rich or powerful person; a magnate, nabob.

   Synonyms: magnate, tycoon, captain of industry

   a Silicon Valley tech mogul

   • 2022 January 25, David Yaffe-Bellany, “The Rise of the Crypto Mayors”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     […] Crypto boosterism has a useful bipartisan appeal, garnering popularity among both antigovernment conservatives and socially liberal tech moguls.

語源 2

From dialectal German Mugel or from dialectal Norwegian mugje (“heap, mound”).

名詞

mogul (plural moguls)

1. (skiing) A hump or bump on a skiing piste.
   • 1995, Martin Heckelman, The New Guide to Skiing, page 109:

     On the same slope, choose a steeper traverse track on a short mogul field that passes over a series of small moguls, and repeat the avalement movements.

2. A larger-sized (39 mm diameter) screw base used for large, high-power light bulbs, known as mogul (screw) base light bulbs.
3. A machine that forms shaped candies from syrups or gels.

派生語

動詞

mogul (third-person singular simple present moguls, present participle moguling, simple past and past participle moguled)

1. (skiing) To ski over a course of humps or bumps.

Further reading

• mogul on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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