boomerang
意味
- ブーメラン(投げた所へ戻ってくるオーストラリアの原住民の飛び道具)
- 《比喩(ひゆ)的に》自分にはね返ってくるもの…やぶへび
- 自分の手元へ戻る,やぶへびとなる
例文
The boomerang hurtled whistling through the air.
ブーメランは音を立てて空中を飛んだ。
Tom threw the boomerang, but it didn't come back.
トムはブーメランを投げたが、戻ってはこなかった。
The boomerang took a huge turn and came back.
ブーメランは大きく旋回して戻ってきた。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
Origin uncertain. Possibly from Thurawal. Long regarded as from the Sydney language, but early evidence unclear. The form boo-mer-it is glossed, c.1790, as 'scimeter' (i.e., scimitar) and the word bumarang, bumarañ is not explicitly recorded in the Sydney Language until 1903.