shark
意味
- サメ,フカ
- 詐欺師,ぺてん師
- 《米俗》名人,達人
例文
My older brother borrowed money from a loan shark.
兄が高利貸しに借金したんです。
According to the news, he was eaten by sharks.
ニュースによると彼はサメに食べられたということだ。
Sharks are infamous for their bloodthirsty natures.
鮫はその血に飢えた残忍さで悪名高い。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English shark (used by Thomas Beckington in 1442 to refer to a kind of fish), of uncertain origin. Most likely from a semantic extension of the German-derived shark (“scoundrel”), see below. The fish was originally called a dogfish or haye in English and Middle English. Its name in Old English is unknown, although some uses of the word hranfisċ that do not appear to carry the sense of "whale" may have been referencing it. alternative theories Some older dictionaries derived the word from Latin c(h)archarias, c(h)acharus (from Ancient Greek), but admit that "the requisite [Old French] forms intermediate between E. shark and L.