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発音

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

名詞

ark (複数形 arks)

1. A large box with a flat lid.
2. (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) Noah's ark: the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge.
   • 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
4. 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.

5. (Judaism) The Ark of the Covenant.
6. (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

• → Maori: āka

Further reading

• “ark”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “ark”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• AKR, KAR, RAK, RKA, kar, kra