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語源

Borrowed from Latin Gangēs, from Ancient Greek Γάγγης (Gángēs), from Sanskrit गङ्गा (gáṅgā, literally “swift-goer”), from the verbal root गम् (gam, “to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to come”) (whence Latin veniō, Ancient Greek βαίνω (baínō), and English come). Doublet of Ganga.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡændʒiːz/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɡænd͡ʒiz/

固有名詞

the Ganges

1. A river in India and Bangladesh, sacred within Hinduism
   • 1625, Samuel Purchas, Pvrchas His Pilgrimes‎, volume III, London, →OCLC, page 340:

     ...the Yellow Riuer... is the other famous Riuer of that Kingdome, in greatneſſe and note, which ariſesth without the Kingdome to the Weſt, out of the Hill Cunlun, conjectured to bee the ſame whence Ganges ariſeth, or one neere to it.

   • 1968, Norman Mailer, “Nixon in Miami”, in Harper's, §6:

     ...their master... was no ad for anybody but the most arcane Black Power, he was an old prince of a witch doctor—insult him at your peril—but the other ten musicians with their trumpets and snares and assorted brass would prove no pull for Nixon on TV with any Black votes watching, for they were old and meek, naught but elderly Black Southern musicians, a veritable Ganges of Uncle Toms. They had disappeared with Tom Swift and Little Lord Fauntleroy.

同意語

• Ganga (in Indian English)

派生語

関連する語

• Gangean
• Gangetic

アナグラム

• Gagens, Gagnes

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈɡan.ɡeːs/, [ˈɡäŋɡeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈɡan.d͡ʒes/, [ˈɡän̠ʲd͡ʒes]

固有名詞

Gangēs m sg (genitive Gangis); third declension

1. the Ganges

語形変化

Third-declension noun, singular only.

派生した語

• → English: Ganges
• French: Gange
  • → Arabic: الْغَانْج (al-ḡānj)
  • → Iranian Persian: گانْژ (gânž)
  • → Turkish: Ganj
• Italian: Gange
• → Polish: Ganges
• Portuguese: Ganges
• Spanish: Ganges

参照

• Ganges in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.