gaurとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Hindi गौर (gaur), from Sanskrit गौर (gaura). Attested in English since the early 19th century. Doublet of gayal.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡaʊ.ə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɡaʊ.əɹ/

名詞

gaur (plural gaurs or gaur)

1. An Asian species of wild bovine (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition.
   • 1889, William T. Hornaday, The Extermination of the American Bison‎:

     […] I am sure that the American bison is the grandest of them all. His only rivals for the kingship are the Indian bison, or gaur (Bos gaurus), of Southern India, and the aurochs, or European bison, both of which really surpass him in height, if not in actual balk also.

   • 1914, Edward Hamilton Aitken, Concerning Animals and Other Matters‎:

     Of the other ruminants the ox, buffalo, yak, goat, sheep and a few others are domestic animals, while the bison and the gaur, or so-called Indian bison, and a large number of wild goats and sheep have been neglected.

同意語

• (Bos gaurus): Bos frontalis gaurus (Indian bison)

参照

• “gaur”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “gaur”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Further reading

• gaur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bos gaurus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Bos gaurus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Bos gaurus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

アナグラム

• Guar., Gura, Urga, guar, ragu, ragù, ruga