英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɑːk/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ɑɹk/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)k
• Homophone: arc

名詞

ark (plural arks)

1. A large box with a flat lid.
2. (Abrahamism) The ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge; Noah's ark.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:

     In the midrash about Noah it says that Noah had a stone which, when held up in the darkness of the ark, would change color when the sun was shining outside.

3. Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge.

   the Ark of Bukhara

4. (figuratively) The body as a vessel.
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     Like her I go; I cannot stay;
     ⁠I leave this mortal ark behind,
     A weight of nerves without a mind,
     And leave the cliffs, and haste away […]

5. A spacious type of boat with a flat bottom.
   • 1990, Lou Sullivan, chapter 7, in From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland, page 76:

     Some seventy or seventy-five arks were permanently located on McLeod's Lake and between 110 and 125 people lived in them.

6. (Judaism) The Ark of the Covenant.
7. (Judaism) A decorated cabinet at the front of a synagogue, in which Torah scrolls are kept.

同意語

• barge
• basket
• chest
• coffer
• hutch
• refuge
• retreat
• shelter
• ship
• vessel

派生語

派生した語

• → Māori: āka

Further reading

• “ark”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ark”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• RAK, KRA, kar, Kra, kra, KAR, RKA, AKR

語源

Borrowed from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).

名詞

ark (plural arks)

1. The path of the sun across the sky.

派生した語

• English: arc
  • → Irish: arc
  • → Maltese: ark
  • → Welsh: arc

参照

• “ark, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.