harpとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 harpe, from 古期英語 hearpe (“harp”), from Proto-West Germanic *harpā, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ (“harp”). Cognate with Scots hairp (“harp”), West Frisian harpe, harp (“harp”), Low German Harp (“harp”), Dutch harp (“harp”), German Harfe (“harp”), Danish harpe (“harp”), Swedish harpa (“harp”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /hɑːp/
• (米国発音) IPA: /hɑɹp/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)p

名詞

harp (plural harps)

1. (music) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
   • 1568, William Cornishe [i.e., William Cornysh], “In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe otherwise Called Nyshwhete Chapelman with the Most Famose and Noble Kyng Henry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.”, in John Skelton, edited by J[ohn] S[tow], Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, Imprinted at London: In Fletestreate, neare vnto Saint Dunstones Churche by Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, 1736, →OCLC, page 290:

     The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge

   1. Any instrument of the same musicological type.
2. (music, colloquial) Any musical instrument.
   1. A harmonica.
   2. A struck tuned percussion instrument of metal or wooden bars, especially as a function of a theatre organ.
3. (Scotland) A grain sieve.
4. The component of a lamp to which one attaches the lampshade, consisting of a lightweight frame that usually surrounds the bulb with an attachment at the top for the finial.
   • 1960, School Shop, volume 20, page 36:

     Contains charts and instructions for wiring. Shows sockets, wire, harps, glass chimneys and globes, shade holders, bases, finials, and hundreds of items necessary in the building of lamps.

   • 1991, Kalton C. Lahue, Cheryl Smith, Interior Lighting, page 104:

     Both types of harp have a swiveling shade holder at the top. The threaded stud on the swivel accepts the finial.

5. Ellipsis of harp seal.
   • 2006, John Gimlette, Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador, page 225:

     More likely, it was the prospect of meat. Curwen was by now craving a juicy roast – 'even seal chop' – and was always loosing off at tickleasses and harps.

同意語

• glee-beam

下位語

派生語

関連する語

• harp seal

参考

• lyre

動詞

harp (third-person singular simple present harps, present participle harping, simple past and past participle harped)

1. (derogatory, usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject, especially so as to nag or complain.

   Why do you harp on a single small mistake?

   (US)

   Why do you harp on about a single small mistake?

   (UK)

2. (transitive) To play on (a harp or similar instrument).
3. (transitive) To play (a tune) on the harp.
4. (transitive, archaic) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

     Thou harped my fear aright.

同意語

• keep on about
• perseverate

参照

• 2013. The Physics of Musical Instruments. Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas Rossing. Pg. 331.

アナグラム

• PHAR