Ajarとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /əˈd͡ʒɑː/
• (米国発音) IPA: /əˈd͡ʒɑɹ/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)

語源 1

From 中期英語 ajar, on char (“on [the] turn”), from on (“on”) + char (“turn, occasion”), from 古期英語 ċierr, cyrr (“turn”), from ċierran (“to turn, convert”), equivalent to a- +‎ char. Akin to Scots char, chare (“to turn, cause to turn”), Dutch akerre, kier (“ajar”), German kehren (“to turn”). See char.

別の表記

• achar (Scotland)

副詞

ajar (not comparable)

1. Slightly turned or opened.

   The door was standing ajar.

形容詞

ajar (comparative more ajar, superlative most ajar)

1. Slightly turned or opened.

   The door is ajar.

   • 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:

     I know—for Death, who comes for me
     From regions of the blest afar,
     Where there is nothing to deceive,
     Hath left his iron gate ajar, […]

動詞

ajar (third-person singular simple present ajars, present participle ajarring, simple past and past participle ajarred)

1. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.
   • 1970, John H. Evans, Mercer County law journal, volume 10:

     A plainclothes detective knocked on a slightly ajarred door.

   • 1977, Bill Reed, Dogod:

     Yes, and the door also lops off stairs leading to a landing on whose landing is another door on whose hinges much of this story ajars, if it hasn't jarred too much already.

   • 2007, Loki, Shard of the Ancient:

     Just as the gates fully ajarred themselves, the Lamborghini soared through them, and out into the freedom of the poorly defined road.

語源 2

From a- (“in, at”) +‎ jar (“discord, disagreement”).

副詞

ajar (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Out of harmony.
2. Being at variance or in contradiction to something.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.14:

     There is a sort of unexpressed concern, / A kind of shock that sets one's heart ajar […] .

動詞

ajar (third-person singular simple present ajars, present participle ajarring, simple past and past participle ajarred)

1. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.
   • 1907, The English Illustrated Magazine, volume 36:

     It clean deafened the two of us, and set all the crockery ware ajarring ; and when the neighbours heard it they came running into the street to see who was getting hurt.

アナグラム

• raja