Playaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈplaɪə/

• 韻: -aɪə
• ハイフネーション: play‧a

名詞

playa (plural playas)

1. (geology, US) A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely.
   • 2020, Diane Cook, The New Wilderness, Oneworld Publications, page 66:

     Beyond the valley below lay a playa, a vast dried-white lake bed, its ends reaching farther than they could see.

   • 2023 September 3, Michael Sainato, “Officials investigate death at Burning Man as thousands stranded by floods”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     “We are also deploying buses to Gerlach to take people to Reno who might walk off the playa. See our recommendations on when walking is viable or not. This is not likely a 24-hour operation at this time.”

下位語

• salt flat, salt pan, alkali flat

派生語

語源 2

From a non-rhotic pronunciation of player

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈpleɪə/

• 韻: -eɪə
• ハイフネーション: play‧a

名詞

playa (plural playas) (African-American Vernacular, slang)

1. A dude (an informal term of address or general term to describe a person, typically male).
2. A player (someone who plays the field, or has prowess in gaining romantic and sexual relationships).
   • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27:

     What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick up T.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me.

   • 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 151:

     In the end, all the things Grace claimed to like about Marlon—that he was not a ‘playa’, that he was gentle and awkward and not interested in money—were all the reasons she left him.