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語源

From Portuguese Sumatra, from Arabic سُومَطْرَة (sūmaṭra), from Malay Sumatera, from Sanskrit समुद्र (samudra, “sea”). Mentioned in the 11th century in Sanskrit as समुद्रभूमि (samudrabhūmi, “land of Sumatra”), gradually replacing the earlier सुवर्णद्वीप (suvarṇadvīpa).

発音

• IPA: /suːˈmɑːtɹə/

固有名詞

Sumatra

1. The largest island entirely in Indonesia and the world’s sixth largest island.

Holonyms

• Greater Sunda Islands

派生語

• Sumatran

名詞

Sumatra (plural Sumatras)

1. (Singapore, formerly) A squall or violent rainstorm coming from the south.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 119:

     In the Straits of Malacca one encounters a squall every night; there they are known by the name of Sumatras, crossing as they do from the island bearing that name.

2. A chicken of a breed native to the island of Sumatra, formerly used in cock-fighting and now mainly kept for exhibition.

参照

• (squall or rainstorm): Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “Sumatra”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

アナグラム

• Muratas, Tamuras, traumas