organとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English organe, from Old French organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “an instrument, implement, tool, also an organ of sense または apprehension, an organ of the body, also a musical instrument, an organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-. Doublet of organon, organum, and orgue.

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹ.ɡən/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.ɡən/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)ɡən
• ハイフネーション: or‧gan

名詞

organ (複数形 organs)

1. A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.

   bodily organs

   vital organ

   • 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 98:

     No matter the extraordinary progress that has been made in heart surgery over the past century, the heart remains a vulnerable organ.

2. (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
3. (music) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.

4. An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
5. Short for organ pipe cactus.
6. (slang) The penis.
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 81:

     If the Snake has an unmistakeable resemblance to the male organ in its active state, the foliage of the tree or bush is equally remindful of the female.

下位語

See also Thesaurus:organ.

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Korean: 오르간 (oreugan)
• → Maori: ōkana
• → Vietnamese: oóc-gan

Further reading

• organ in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• organ in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

動詞

organ (三人称単数 現在形 organs, 現在分詞 organing, 過去形および過去分詞形 organed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
   • 1681, Thomas Manningham, Two Discourses

     Thou art elemented and organ'd for other apprehensions.

アナグラム

• Angor, Garon, Goran, Grano, Ongar, Ragon, Rogan, Ronga, angor, argon, groan, nagor, orang, rag on, rango