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発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈpoʊloʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/, /ˈpəʊl.əʊ/, [ˈpəʊləʊ], [ˈpɒʊɫəʊ]
• 韻: -əʊləʊ

語源 1

From Balti پولو (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ་ལོ (spo lo, “ball”).

名詞

polo (usually uncountable, plural polos)

1. (uncountable) A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
   • 2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 227:

     There were polo fields – sometimes green, sometimes brown – where in the old days, people had actually played that strange game that seems like a drunken bet about golf and horse riding.

2. The game of ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
3. (countable) A polo shirt.
   • 2007 February 22, Mike Albo, “Outfitters to Presidents, Preppies, Me”, in New York Times‎:

     Then on the second floor there is the creepy boy’s section, which had little headless mannequins in premium polos ($39.50), rugby shirts ($49.50) and a precocious leather pilot jacket for $148.

派生語

語源 2

From Spanish, an air or popular song in Andalusia.

名詞

polo

1. A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.

語源 3

Unknown.

名詞

polo (plural polos)

1. (Philippines) A dress shirt.

語源 4

From the game marco polo, from the explorer Marco Polo, from Latin Paulus.

間投詞

polo

1. Alternative letter-case form of Polo.

   Coordinate terms: marco, marco polo

Further reading

• polo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “polo”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Loop, OOPL, Pool, loop, pool

参照

• “polo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers