swastikaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈswɒstɪkə/, /ˈswɒstəkə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈswɑstɪkə/, /ˈswɑstəkə/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈswɔstɘkɘ/

名詞

swastika (countable and uncountable, plural swastikas)

1. (countable) A cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle to the right or to the left, used as a religious symbol by various ancient and modern civilizations, but now mainly seen and used in the West (with arms angled to the right) as a symbol of Nazism and fascism.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Sending of Dana Da”, in In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, pages 423–4:

     This was signed by Dana Da, who added pentacles and pentagrams, and a crux ansata, and half-a-dozen swastikas, and a Triple Tau to his name, just to show that he was all he laid claim to be.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 270:

     It is clear from archaeological finds that they enjoyed wearing Christian crosses, though they might enliven these with such symbols as the Indian swastika which Buddhists had brought them.

   • 2016 October 16, Eric Bradner and Adrienne Shih, “Local GOP office in North Carolina firebombed”, in CNN‎:

     A GOP office in Hillsborough, North Carolina, was firebombed over the weekend, with a swastika and the words “Nazi Republicans leave town or else” spray painted on an adjacent building, according to local officials.

   • 2023 October 30, Sara Smart and Elizabeth Wolfe, “Swastikas found drawn on Connecticut high school campus for second time since Israel-Hamas war ignited, district says”, in CNN‎:

     Authorities in Connecticut are investigating after swastikas were found drawn on a high school campus in Stamford for the second time since Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel earlier this month, the school district said.

2. (fascism, history, metonymic, uncountable) Nazi rule.
   • 1989, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, spoken by Dr. Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody):

     "Is that what you think of me? I believe in the Grail, not the Swastika!"

   • 2011, Rudolph Herzog, translated by Jefferson Chase, Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany‎, Brooklyn: Melville House, →ISBN, page 36:

     “I can’t imagine anyone believes in Communist culprits instead of a contract job commissioned on behalf of the swastika.”

同意語

• Black Spider
• (in heraldry): crooked cross, cross cramponned, cross cramponnée, cross cramponny
• cross gammadion, gammadion, gammation
• (chiefly in architecture and heraldry) fylfot
• (chiefly in India referring to the Nazi swastika) hakenkreuz
• hooked cross
• (chiefly in traditional Basque culture) lauburu
• (chiefly in East Asian Buddhism) manji
• (left-facing; symbolizing the night or the tantric aspects of Kali) sauwastika, sauvastika
• sun wheel
• tetraskelion
• (chiefly in traditional Latvian culture) thunder cross
• twisted cross

Holonyms

• kolovrat (Slavic neopaganism, far-right politics)

派生語

• half-swastika
• Swasticar
• zwastika

Further reading

• swastika on Wikipedia.Wikipedia