bairnとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (rhotic) IPA: /bɛərn/
  • (Scotland) IPA: [bern], [bɛrn]
  • (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: [bɜːɹn]
  • (Northumbria, rare) IPA: [bɛəʁn]
• (non-rhotic) IPA: /bɛən/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: [bɛːn]
  • (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: [bɜːn]

In some areas (e.g. Bradford), pronounced as IPA: /ˈbaːn/. See Etymology 2 under barn. (See page 216 in Joseph Wright's A Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill).

• 韻: -ɛə(ɹ)n, -ɑː(ɹ)n

名詞

bairn (plural bairns)

1. (Scotland, and parts of Northern England) A child or baby.
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     She moved about the country like a ghost, gathering herbs in dark loanings, lingering in kirkyairds, and casting a blight on innocent bairns.

   • 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 219:

     They say that a shag is good for an unborn child, they get the circulation of blood, or some shite. The least ah kin dae is take an interest in the bairn’s welfare.

   • 1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, Bobby Shaftoe, page 87:

     Bobby Shaftoe's getten a bairn
     For to dandle in his arm;
     In his arm and on his knee,
     Bobby Shaftoe loves me.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:child.

派生語

動詞

bairn (third-person singular simple present bairns, present participle bairning, simple past and past participle bairned)

1. (transitive, Scotland) To get (someone) pregnant.
   • 1992, Robin Jenkins, Happy for the Child, page 108:

     Go and kick the man that bairned your Nancy.

   • 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 171:

     Just because he's signed up fir the fuckin army again, six bastard years this time, and bairned some slag.

参照

• Frank Graham, editor (1987), “BAIRN”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin, “bairn”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎, archived from the original on 5 September 2024.
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2]
• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “bairn”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “bairn”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “bairn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

参照

• “bairn”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

アナグラム

• Barin, Brain, Brian, Rabin, abrin, brain, brian