英和和英

語源

Borrowed from Spanish hombre (“man; human being”). Doublet of gome, homo, ombre, and omi.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒmbɹeɪ/, /-bɹi/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɑmbɹeɪ/, /ˈʌmbɹeɪ/, /-bɹi/
• 韻: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒmbɹeɪ
• ハイフネーション: hom‧bre

名詞

hombre (plural hombres)

1. (chiefly US, in Spanish-speaking contexts, slang) A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man.
   • c. 1850, [Thomas] Mayne Reid, “A Group of Jarochos”, in The Guerilla Chief, and Other Tales, London: C. H. Clarke, 13, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 62:

     [W]e're glad to learn that the Yankee bullet has not quite stopped your breath. You're all right, hombre!

   • 1852 March 8, E. P., “Golden Correspondence.—No. 1”, in J[oseph] M. Church, editor, Church’s Bizarre. For Fireside and Wayside, volume I, number 1 (New Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: Church & Co., 140 Chestnut Street, published 17 April 1852, →OCLC, page 9, column 2:

     That hombre now with the worn out hat, tattered shirt, and fragmentary breeches, wears a sword. Bless you, his dignity would suffer greatly without it!

   • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 92:

     Coming towards us was the biggest, meanest looking hombre I'd ever seen.

   • 2010, Jon Sharpe [pseudonym], chapter 1, in Rocky Mountain Revenge (The Trailsman; no. 342), New York, N.Y.: Signet Books, New American Library, →ISBN:

     The foreman. As tough an hombre who ever lived. If Mr. Bell had sent Jackson instead of me, he'd take your rifle and beat you half to death with it.

   • 2016, Lawrence Winkler, “Bajada”, in Orion’s Cartwheel (Cartwheels Quadrilogy; 1), Victoria, B.C.: First Choice Books, →ISBN, page 22:

     There was a pause I didn't like, punctuated by shrieks of shrill laughter from the hombres at the bar. Only Mexicans can laugh like that.

   • 2025 October 20, Carlos Lozada, “You Caught Me. I’m Speaking Spanish.”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Spanish has become a sanctioned indicator of potential criminality in the United States of America. The language of Miguel de Cervantes and Andrés Cantor, the world’s fourth most spoken tongue, has been deemed the sound of bad hombres in our midst.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

Further reading

• hombre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia