to aとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

To'a

1. A martial art developed from Shaolin kung fu in the 1960s in Iran.

アナグラム

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語源 1

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名詞

toa (plural toas)

1. A small painted artifact made by the Diyari people of Australia, believed to have been used as place markers or signposts.
   • 2000, Lin Onus, Urban dingo: the art and life of Lin Onus, 1948-1996, page 21:

     These thirty-four toa constructions, made from urban debris and ceremoniously installed in a circular (or sometimes oval) bed of sand, bring together the multiple themes centred on reclamation that preoccupied his life.

   • 2005, Bill Arthur, Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia‎, page 22:

     It seems that on leaving one place people would place a toa in the ground to show other people where they had gone.

語源 2

Borrowed from Maori toa.

名詞

toa (plural toas)

1. (New Zealand) A brave warrior.
   • 1902, Journal of the Polynesian Society‎, volume 11, page 211:

     The toa or brave who distinguished himself was thought very highly of.

   • 2011, Robert N. Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution‎, page 261:

     Thus in Polynesia, the toa (warrior) could challenge the ariki (priest/chief).

語源 3

Borrowed from Maori toa. Doublet of koa.

名詞

toa (countable and uncountable, plural toas)

1. A Polynesian tree of the genus Casuarina, or its wood.
   • 1817, William Mariner, An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific‎, page 302:

     It happens that nature has assembled in this spot, not only the wildest profusion of the vegetable kingdom, over which the lofty toa tree stands pre-eminent, but also objects of another description, overhanging rocks, hollow-sounding caverns, and steep precipices, calculated to give an aspect as bold and sublime as the imagination can well conceive, and constituting a species of scenery, which, in proportion as it is more rare, is more admired by the natives.

   • 1882, John Shertzer Hittell, The Commerce and Industries of the Pacific Coast of North America‎, page 604:

     The toa wood of the South Pacific islands is similar to Eastern walnut in color and texture, but is much finer in figure.

アナグラム

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