kutchaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Hindi कच्चा (kaccā, “raw, unripe”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkʌtʃə/

形容詞

kutcha (comparative more kutcha, superlative most kutcha)

1. (South Asia) Imperfect, makeshift; ramshackle, second-rate.
2. (South Asia) Built from natural materials, especially unfired mud and thatch.
   • 2016 July 7, K. Kalpana, Women, Microfinance and the State in Neo-liberal India, Routledge, →ISBN, page 129:

     The manager publicly announced that the kutcha house loan was for those who lived in thatched huts and the linkage loan for those who lived in tiled houses!

反意語

• pukka

名詞

kutcha (uncountable)

1. (South Asia) Dried brick or mud, used as a material.
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 215:

     The only reasonable objection that could be made was its being cutcha—that is, built with mud instead of mortar.

   • 1909, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars (The Works of Rudyard Kipling), Edinburgh de Luxe edition, Boston, Mass.; London: The Edinburgh Society, →OCLC, page 84:

     Does the Station go on still? That was ages and ages ago. It must be crumbling to pieces. All except the Amirtollah kutcha road. I don't believe that could crumble till the Day of Judgment.

派生語

アナグラム

• Kuchta