Meeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /miː/
• (General American) IPA: /mi/
• 異形同音異義語: me, Me
• 韻: -iː

語源 1

From 中期英語 mee, variant of me, from 古期英語 mē (“me”). See further at me.

代名詞

mee (personal pronoun)

1. Obsolete spelling of me.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act VII, scene vii]:

     Macbeth: Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so; / For it hath Cow'd my better part of man: […]

2. obsolete emphatic of me
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book LXIX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 236-238:

     Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life / I offer, on mee let thine anger fall; / Account mee man; […]

語源 2

Borrowed from Hokkien 麵／面 (mī).

名詞

mee (countable and uncountable, plural mees) (cooking, Malaysia, Singapore)

1. Chinese-style wheat noodles.

   Coordinate terms: bee hoon, kway teow, lamian, mai fun, mee hoon, mee sua, mei fun, ramen

   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, chapter 7, in Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), London: Heinemann, published 1968, →ISBN, page 115:

     He watched with pleasure the food-sellers swirling the frying mee round in their kualis over primitive charcoal fires.

2. With a descriptive word: a dish containing Chinese-style wheat noodles.

   curry mee    prawn mee soup

   • 1935, Alec Dixon, chapter XIII, in Singapore Patrol, London: George G. Harrap and Co., →OCLC, page 107:

     We were confronted by a large dish piled with a startling mixture of spaghetti, bamboo shoots, sliced prawns, and tiny cubes of pork […] Its name […] was mee. Mee is a favourite dish of the Chinese, and is on sale at all hours of the day and night.

   • 1992, Hugo Dunn-Meynell, “Singapore Street Food”, in Harlan Walker, editor, Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1991: Public Eating: Proceedings, London: Prospect Books, →ISBN, page 93:

     Hokkien Prawn Mee – Pork and prawns in yellow noodles. […] Mushroom Mee – Noodles with Chinese mushrooms, minced pork and green vegetables.

   • 2007, Lee Geok Boi, “Wheat Noodles in Soup and Gravy”, in Lydia Leong, editor, Classic Asian Noodles, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, →ISBN, page 150:

     Penang-style prawn mee is spicier and is usually served with more pork than Singapore-style prawn mee. Like Singapore-style prawn mee, the Hokkien mee in this recipe can be combined with fine rice vermicelli.

   • 2016, “Noodles and Rice”, in Lydia Leong, editor, Meatmen Cooking Channel Hawker Favourites: Popular Singaporean Street Foods, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, →ISBN, page 38:

     Braised. Thick. Heavy. These are the key words people associate with lor mee, and it's all true! And it's so dam shiok! If you're a fan of braised dishes with that dark gooey sauce, you'll love this lor mee recipe.

   • 2023 May 21, Linda Lumayag, “Our identity is reflected in our food”, in The Sun‎, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia: Sun Media Corporation, →OCLC:

     My former student's kouyteav sachko (mee Champa) is not just any other mee soup. In it is one person's constant reminder of his/her identity heightened in its unique ingredients, taste and flavour and presented vis-a-vis other types of mee soup available in restaurants, kopitiams, hawkers' stalls or at home.

派生語

• Hokkien mee
• Maggi mee

関連する語

参照

Further reading

• Chinese noodles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• -eme, EME, Eme, eem, eme

限定詞

mee

1. vocative masculine singular of meus
   • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, 21:20:

     Et ait Ahab ad Heliam num invenisti me inimice mee qui dixit inveni eo quod venundatus sis ut faceres malum in conspectu Domini.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)