mujikとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Russian мужи́к (mužík, “peasant”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː(d)ʒɪk/, /muːˈʒiːk/

名詞

mujik (複数形 mujiks または mujiki)

1. A Russian (male) peasant. [from 16th c.]
   • 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 361:

     Since she had last looked at a newspaper, it appeared that the Russians had become heroes and magnificent fighters. They were no longer a rabble of ill-equipped moujiks fleeing before the Nazi hordes.

   • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:

     [A] few days later [I] had rented for the month of August what looked in the snapshots they sent me like a cross between a mujik's izba and Refuge Z, but it had a tiled bathroom and cost dearer than my Appalachian castle.