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語源 1

固有名詞

the Horn

1. Cape Horn, at the southern tip of South America.

   Sailing around the Horn was an arduous journey for sailing ships.

2. The Horn of Africa, a peninsula of Africa which juts into the Arabian Sea.
   • 1978, War in the Horn of Africa, report of the United States Fact-Finding Mission to Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya, page 4:

     At the same time, it would be erroneous to exaggerate U.S. interests, to overreact to political developments in the Horn, or to adopt imprudent policies based on emotional reactions to Soviet and Cuban involvement.

   • 1998, John Markakis, Resource conflict in the Horn of Africa, page 185:

     […] countries fail to explore the possibilities of producing other crops of high value and demand in the Horn or elsewhere.

   • 2001, Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi, Culture and Customs of Somalia, →ISBN, page 8:

     The word Somali itself today refers to any inhabitant of Somalia; it also refers to any person of ethnic Somali origin in the Horn or elsewhere.

   • 2012, Peter Woodward, Crisis In The Horn of Africa, →ISBN, page 39:

     Although major coups had taken off in the Arab world in Egypt in 1952, this was the first coup in the Horn or indeed in post-independence Africa.

語源 2

固有名詞

Horn (countable and uncountable, plural Horns)

1. A surname.
2. A former civil parish in Rutland, England, abolished in 2016 on the formation of Exton and Horn parish.
3. An unincorporated community in Dawes County, Nebraska, United States.

派生語

• Exton and Horn
• Horn Kolb syndrome

アナグラム

• NRHO, Rohn