Mormonとは意味・読み方・使い方

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語源

From the title of the chief work of Joseph Smith the Book of Mormon. Followers of his religious movement were called this since the 1830s. The title of the book comes from the name from the prophet who they believe compiled it, called Mormon, father of Moroni, and/or the Waters of Mormon mentioned in it.

Various implausible etymologies have been proposed, usually in attempts to discredit or defend the Mormon faith.

発音

(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɔːmən/
(General American) IPA: /ˈmɔɹmən/
韻: -ɔː(ɹ)mən

固有名詞

Mormon

In Mormonism, an ancient American prophet who compiled the Book of Mormon.

派生語

Mormonism

名詞

Mormon (plural Mormons)

(originally derogatory, sometimes proscribed) A believer in the Mormon religion, which views Joseph Smith as a prophet of God and holds the Bible and the Book of Mormon as its primary scriptures.

Synonyms: Latter-day Saint, LDS
- 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 1, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
  
  That year, 1871, had marked a change which had been gradually coming in the lives of the peace-loving Mormons of the border.

等位語

religious adherentsedit

派生語

exmo
Jack Mormon
Molly Mormon (Molly Mormon)

派生した語

→ Hopi: moomona
→ Fijian: momani
→ Samoan: Mamona
→ Hawaiian: Moramona
→ Portuguese: mórmon
→ Spanish: mormón
→ Japanese: モルモン

形容詞

Mormon (not comparable)

(sometimes proscribed) Of, or pertaining to, the faith established by Joseph Smith, Jr.

派生語

Mormon cricket

参照

^ An early use is in the title of the 1839 Facts Relative to the Expulsion of the Mormons, Or Latter Day Saints, from the State of Missouri.
^ Within the Book of Mormon, the waters are said by the book to have been named by "the king" (taken in context to be King Noah).
^ For example, the suggestion that Mormon or Moroni might be derived from moron cannot be correct, because moron was only coined in 1910. For more theories, see Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, volume 13 (2015, →ISBN. The most prominent pro-Mormon etymology is the one, suggested in an 1834 Times and Seasons letter, that the term derives from English more + a supposed Egyptian *mon (“good”), which, however, modern scholarship considers figurative at best — see Paul Y. Hoskisson, What's in a Name? Mormon part 1 (Insights 32/2, 2012) and part 2 (Insights 32/3, 2012). Matthew Bowen suggested that the name derives from Egyptian mr(j) (“to love, desire”). On the anti-Mormon side, Eber D. Howe suggested in 1834 that "The English word Mormon [...] is the English termination of the Greek word, "Mormoo," which we find defined in an old obsolete Dictionary "bug-bear, hob-goblin, raw head, and bloody bones"; Hoskisson writes that "almost any knowledgeable reader, even in 1834, would have recognized that this definition is not only fabricated but downright silly." An anonymous editorialist wrote in 1841 that "[In] the reformed Egyptian tongue, [...] Mormon [is] a writer of wicked, absurd, fictitious nonsense, for evil purposes, to make sorcerors", which the Interpreter calls "laughable".

[1] An early use is in the title of the 1839 Facts Relative to the Expulsion of the Mormons, Or Latter Day Saints, from the State of Missouri.

[2] Within the Book of Mormon, the waters are said by the book to have been named by "the king" (taken in context to be King Noah).

[3] For example, the suggestion that Mormon or Moroni might be derived from moron cannot be correct, because moron was only coined in 1910. For more theories, see Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, volume 13 (2015, →ISBN. The most prominent pro-Mormon etymology is the one, suggested in an 1834 Times and Seasons letter, that the term derives from English more + a supposed Egyptian *mon (“good”), which, however, modern scholarship considers figurative at best — see Paul Y. Hoskisson, What's in a Name? Mormon part 1 (Insights 32/2, 2012) and part 2 (Insights 32/3, 2012). Matthew Bowen suggested that the name derives from Egyptian mr(j) (“to love, desire”). On the anti-Mormon side, Eber D. Howe suggested in 1834 that "The English word Mormon [...] is the English termination of the Greek word, "Mormoo," which we find defined in an old obsolete Dictionary "bug-bear, hob-goblin, raw head, and bloody bones"; Hoskisson writes that "almost any knowledgeable reader, even in 1834, would have recognized that this definition is not only fabricated but downright silly." An anonymous editorialist wrote in 1841 that "[In] the reformed Egyptian tongue, [...] Mormon [is] a writer of wicked, absurd, fictitious nonsense, for evil purposes, to make sorcerors", which the Interpreter calls "laughable".


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