バーベキュー
解説 Definition
barbecue は、屋外で肉や野菜を焼いて食べるバーベキューという意味です。料理そのものや、その食事会を指します。日本語の「バーベキュー」とほぼ同じ意味です。
A meal or social gathering at which meat, vegetables, or other food is cooked outdoors over a fire or hot coals; it can also mean the food prepared in this way. Usage varies as to whether it includes the cooking equipment.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
屋外で肉や野菜を焼く料理だけでなく、その食事会も指します。have a barbecue なら「会を開く」、cook chicken at the barbecue なら調理の場、barbecue sauce なら風味を表します。語源は木組みの台を指したカリブ海先住民の語がスペイン語 barbacoa を経たもので、「焼く台から料理・会へ」と覚えます。
Remember that barbecue can name both the food and the social event. In “We had a barbecue,” it means an outdoor meal or gathering; in “The barbecue was delicious,” it can refer to the cooked food. Useful combinations include have a barbecue, barbecue chicken, and barbecue sauce. The history provides a concrete image: the word originally referred to a wooden framework used in preparing food and later expanded to the cooking method and meal. A picnic need not involve cooking, so the presence of food being grilled or smoked is the stronger clue for barbecue.
例文
We had a barbecue in the garden.
私たちは庭でバーベキューをしました。
My father cooked chicken at the barbecue.
父はバーベキューで鶏肉を焼きました。
They invited their friends to a barbecue on Saturday.
彼らは土曜日のバーベキューに友人たちを招きました。
barbecue の類義語・関連語
barbecue の語源・成り立ち Etymology
barbecue はスペイン語 barbacoa を経て英語に入り、さらにカリブ海先住民の語に由来するとされます。もとは肉を載せる木組みの台を指し、そこから「網焼き料理」全体の意味へ広がりました。関連語に barbacoa、barbeque があります。
Barbecue entered English through Spanish barbacoa, which Spanish speakers had borrowed from an Indigenous language of the Caribbean, commonly identified as Taíno. The earlier word referred to a wooden framework or raised structure used for purposes including cooking or drying food. In English, the meaning shifted from the supporting framework to a method of cooking, the food produced, and eventually the social meal centered on that cooking.
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