taraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• ta-ra, turrah

発音

• IPA: /tæˈɹɑː/, /təˈɹɑː/ (note: Stress on 2nd syllable, unlike the proper name Tara)

間投詞

tara

1. (UK, Ireland, Northern England, Midlands, Wales or informal) Goodbye.
   • 2004: Metro in This is London (website of London Evening Standard), Jolie says ta-ra to Lara - Pssst...Actress Angelina Jolie's days as Tomb Raider action hero Lara Croft are over.

   Synonyms: bye, ta ta

使用する際の注意点

• Equivalent to the more geographically widespread ta ta.

参考

• ta ta

語源 2

Borrowed from Maori tara (“tern”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈtɑːrɑː/

名詞

tara (plural taras)

1. (New Zealand, rare) The tern.
   • 1909, Royal Society of New Zealand, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, page 273:

     These are Hine-karoro (origin and personification of the karoro, or black-billed gull), the next born being Hine-tara (the tara, or tern); the next is Hine-tore. The last born of that lot was Punga, the origin of […]

   • 1977, Alexander Wyclif Reed, Treasury of Maori Exploration: Legends Relating to the First Polynesian Explorers of New Zealand, Raupo:

     Another account says that a tara (tern) and other birds alighted at Tahunatapu, the first part of the fish to surface, and that Maui greeted its appearance with an incantation that included the words : Appears the great land lying […]

   • 2003, Margaret Orbell, Birds of Aotearoa: A Natural and Cultural History, Raupo:

     Most numerous and widespread of the terns of Aotearoa are the tara, or white-fronted terns. Another species, also named tara , is the smaller black-fronted tern. […]

   • 2004, Alexander Wyclif Reed, Ross Calman, Reed Book of Maori Mythology, Raupo:

     Again it is said that the tara (tern) alighted on the new land at Tahunatapu, the first part to emerge from the sea, and was followed by other birds. Māui recited an incantation of welcome which included the words : Appears the […]

語源 3

別の表記

• tar, tare, tarr

名詞

tara (plural taras)

1. (India) A small silver coin current in South India at the time of the arrival of the Portuguese.
   • 1979, The Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, volume 41, page 70:

     The only silver coin of this empire reported so far is a Tara of the time of Pratāpa devaraya.

語源 4

Borrowed from Spanish tara, ultimately from Quechua tara.

名詞

tara (plural taras)

1. A plant native to Peru, the spiny holdback, Tara spinosa
   • 2024 October 3, Sandee LaMotte, “‘I’ve never experienced pain like that’: Consumers pay the price for untested food ingredients”, in CNN‎:

     The pods of the tara plant are used to make tara gum and tara flour. The latter has been found to be an unapproved food additive.

派生語

参照

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “tara”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

アナグラム

• taar, ATRA, Arta, A.A.R.T., rata, Atar, atar