whareとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈfʌre/, /ˈfʌri/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈfɑːɹeɪ/, /ˈʍɑːɹeɪ/, /ˈwɑːɹeɪ/
• ハイフネーション: wha‧re

名詞

whare (plural whare or whares) (New Zealand)

1. A Maori house or other building. [from 19th c.]
   • 1867, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, translated by Edward Sauter, “Ngawhas, and Puias; boiling springs, solfataras and fumaroles”, in New Zealand: Its Physical Geography, Geology and Natural History […], Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta, →OCLC, page 423:

     The dwellings of the chiefs are surrounded with enclosures of pole-fences; and the Whares and Wharepunis, some of them exhibiting very fine specimens of the Maori order of architecture, are ornamented with grotesque wood-carvings.

   • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store:

     We were on the brow of the hill, and below us there was a whare roofed in with corrugated iron.

   • 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 348:

     At the far end of the whare there's a wooden bed.

2. (now historical) A rough shack or hut built (by Europeans) using traditional Maori techniques; a workman's shack. [from 19th c.]
   • 2014, Tina Makereti, “He Taonga te Reo: How ngā Kupu Māori Contribute to New Zealand Writing in English”, in Jolisa Gracewood, Susanna Andrew, editors, Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2015, Auckland: Auckland University Press, →ISBN, pages 118–119:

     Many New Zealanders will know that a whare is a house. But in this context, the whare were being built for a summer hunting and gathering expedition. It was the 1880s, so timber houses also featured, but here the whānau were travelling to tribal lands and building makeshift whare to camp in.

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