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語源

Compare Marathi वडवागूळ (vaḍvāgūḷ) or वडवाघूळ (vaḍvāghūḷ), explained in Molesworth's dictionary as "वड & वागूळ from वल्गुली S Because it takes up its abode in the वड tree. But, preferably, वड instead of वन or वन्य Wild—the Wild bat, as contrad. from the House- bat."

The retroflex consonant ड (ḍa) might be mistaken for (or at least transcribed as) the English letter r, which is realized as a retroflex approximant for some English speakers.

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名詞

wurbagool (plural wurbagools)

1. (obsolete) An Indian flying fox (Pteropus medius, syn. Pteropus giganteus), found throughout south Asia.

   Synonym: greater Indian fruit bat

   • 1838, Colonel [William Henry] Sykes, F.R.S., “Special Report on the Statistics of the Four Collectorates of Dukhun, under the British Government”, in Report of the Seventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; held at Liverpool in September 1837, volume 6, London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 246:

     Cheiroptera.—Three species of bats, Wurbagool, Pteropus medius; Nyctinomus plicatus; and Rhinolphus Dukhunensis.

   • 1843, List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the Collection of the British Museum, London: George Woodfall and Son, →LCCN, page 36:

     The Wurbagool. Pteropus Edwardsii, Geoff. Ann. Mus. xv. 92. Temm. Monog. ii. 61. P. medius, Temm. Monog. i. 176. P. leucocephalus, Hodgson. Edwards, Birds, iv. t. 180.

   • [1867, Andrew Leith Adams, Wanderings of a naturalist in India: The western Himalayas, and Cashmere, Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, page 15:

     My attention was one morning directed to a colony of flying foxes (Pteropus edwardsii) […] The natives call this bat the “wurbagool.”]

   • 1877, Robert Armitage Sterndale, Seonee, or Camp Life on the Saptura Range: A Tale of Indian Adventure, 2nd edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 194:

     ‘Will your honour shoot me one of those wurbagools?’ ¶ ‘Why, what do you want a wurbagool for?’ ¶ ‘You see, my lord, I get rheumatic pains in my leg sometimes, and the bone of a wurbagool tied round the ankle with a string of a black cow’s hair is, they say, the best cure.’

参照

Further reading

• Indian flying fox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pteropus giganteus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Pteropus medius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons