英和和英

別の表記

• charpai, charpaya

語源

From Hindustani چار پائی (cār pāī) / चारपाई (cārpāī), from चार (cār, “four”) + पाई (pāī, “feet”), thus literally “quadruped” or “tetrapod”.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈtʃɑːpɔɪ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɑɹpɔɪ/

名詞

charpoy (plural charpoys)

1. (South Asia) A traditional bedstead used in South Asia, consisting of a wooden frame bordering a set of knotted ropes.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “To be Filed for Reference”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2004, page 213:

     Here is a charpoy on which two can sit, and it is possible that there may, from time to time, be food in that platter.

   • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 13, in Burmese Days‎:

     Flory crossed the brick-like earth of the yard between the hospital sheds. All down the wide verandas, on sheetless charpoys, rows of grey-faced men lay silent and moveless.

   • 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic, published 2009, page 54:

     There, every morning, tens of thousands of young men sit in the tea shops, reading the newspaper, or lie on a charpoy humming a tune, or sit in their rooms talking to a photo of a film actress.

参考

• teapoy