Mordorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɔːdɔː(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmɔɹdɔɹ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈmoːdoː(ɹ)/

固有名詞

Mordor

1. An area of peril, darkness, or evil, which people fear to visit or explore.

   Synonyms: wasteland, hellscape

   • 2007, Paul F. M. Zahl, Grace in Practice: A Theology of Everyday Life, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., published 2007, →ISBN, page 94:

     It is a “Mordor” sort of anthropology, dark rather than light, swampland rather than solid ground.

   • 2007, B. Erin Wylde, Where Did I Go?, →ISBN, page 100:

     Nevertheless, this book is about the truth, the good and the bad, so I will tread into the forbidden territory, the Mordor of motherhood.

   • 2012, Zygmunt Miłoszewski, A Grain of Truth: A Second Case for State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki, Bitter Lemon Press (2012; original Polish book published 2011), →ISBN, page 290:

     “OK, can we go back now?” asked their guide and expert on the underground, whose restless eyes implied that he was on the edge of panic. “I for one am not venturing a step further into this Mordor.”

   • 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times‎:

     It’s impossible to find harmony in an outfit when you have to schlep five kilos of kit with you in order to manage the post-workout transformation. Of course, I could change at work. But this would entail using the office showers. And I would sooner venture into Mordor.

   • 2022 April 17, Pjotr Sauer, Andrew Roth, quoting Antonina Baever, “Empty galleries and fleeing artists: Russia’s cultural uncoupling from the west”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     “I fled from Moscow, which has turned into Mordor. […] ”

   • 2024 February 25, Helen Russell, “Play outside and sing together: what living in Denmark taught me about raising ‘Viking’ children”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     They are out in nature for hours a day – despite the fact that the weather’s terrible (we’re talking Mordor from October to March).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Mordor.
2. (slang, derogatory, politics) Russia.

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

派生した語

• → Chinese: 魔多
• → Polish: Mordor
• → Russian: Мо́рдор (Mórdor)
• → Ukrainian: Мо́рдор (Mórdor)