Gramaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɡɹɑːmə/, /ˈɡɹamə/

名詞

grama (countable and uncountable, plural gramas)

1. Various species of grass in the genus Bouteloua, including Bouteloua gracilis (blue grama)
   • 1864, Fitz-Hugh Ludlow., The Atlantic:

     To understand the exquisite beauty of simple green grass, you must travel through eight hundred miles of sage-brush and grama...the latter, a stunted species of herbage, growing in ash tinted spirals, only two inches from the ground, and giving the Plains an appearance of being matted with curled hair or gray corkscrews. Its other name is “buffalo grass”; and in spite of its dinginess, with the assistance of the sage, converting all the Plains west of Fort Kearney into a model Quaker landscape, it is one of the most nutritious varieties of cattle fodder, and for hundreds of miles the emigrant drover’s only dependence.

   • 2005 October 17, Tom Drury, “Path Lights”, in The New Yorker:

     Every few years, Ingrid goes back to take a look, even though all that’s left is the old bleached shell of a house, surrounded by blue grama grass and tall trees with pale bark and waxy leaves.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 95:

     The grass was thick around us, grama and bluestem, more than could ever be eaten.

派生語

アナグラム

• Magar, marga, ragam, rāgam

語源

From Proto-Germanic *gramô. Cognate with Old Saxon gramo, Old Saxon gremi, Old High German gramo, Old Norse gremi. Akin also to 古期英語 gram (“angry, cruel, fierce”), grimm, grim (“fierce, savage”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡrɑ.mɑ/

名詞

grama m (nominative plural graman)

1. anger, rage, wrath, indignation, fury; trouble
2. demonic spirit, devil, fiend, demon; imp, puck

語形変化

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派生した語

• Middle English: grame, grome
  • English: grame