Quaggaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• kwagga (dated)
• quakka
• quagha

語源

From Dutch quagga (whence also Afrikaans kwagga), from a Khoisan term, probably Haiǁom, Khoekhoe ǁkoaah, apparently of imitative origin.

発音

• (General South African) IPA: /ˈkwaxə/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkwɒɡə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /kwæɡə/, /kwɑɡə/
• 韻: -æɡə, -ɑːɡə

名詞

quagga (plural quaggas)

1. A southern-African subspecies of plains zebra, Equus quagga quagga, which went extinct in 1883. The upper parts of the animal were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     I saw a rhinoceros, buffalo (a large herd), eland, quagga, and sable antelope, the most beautiful of all the bucks, not to mention many smaller varieties of game, and three ostriches which scudded away at our approach like white drift before a gale.

2. Ellipsis of quagga mussel.

派生語

• quagga mussel

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