karma
カルマ
解説 Definition
karma はカルマ、つまり行いが将来の結果に影響するという考えを指します。日本語の「カルマ」と近い意味ですが、英語では日常会話で「自分の行いの報い」という軽い意味でも使われます。
Karma is the principle that a person’s actions influence their future experiences or fate, especially in religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. In informal English, it can also mean a deserved result that seems to return to someone because of their earlier behavior.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
日本語の「カルマ」と結び付けつつ、英語では宗教的な「業」だけでなく、行いが自分に返るという日常的な「報い」にも使うと覚えましょう。believe in karma、good karma、bad karma が典型表現です。単なる luck より、自分の過去の行為と結果の因果関係を含みます。
Connect karma with actions returning as consequences. In religious contexts, it refers to the effects of actions across a person’s life or existence; in everyday English, people may use it more lightly for a result that feels deserved. Learn the common combinations believe in karma, good karma, and bad karma. This separates karma from luck: luck can be purely accidental, while karma suggests a link between what someone did and what later happened to them. Kind actions may create good karma, whereas harmful behavior may bring bad karma.
例文
He believes in karma.
彼はカルマを信じています。
Good karma comes from kind actions.
よいカルマは親切な行いから生まれます。
She said karma would bring a fair result.
彼女はカルマが公正な結果をもたらすだろうと言いました。
karma の類義語・関連語
karma の語源・成り立ち Etymology
サンスクリット語 karman(行為・業)が語源で、kṛ(なす・作る)から派生。仏教・ヒンドゥー教の「業(ごう)」の概念として英語に入った。関連語に dharma(法・義務)がある。行いが未来の運命を決めるという因果応報の思想を一語で表す。
Karma entered English through the terminology of South Asian religions and comes from Sanskrit karman, meaning “action, deed, or work.” That noun is related to the Sanskrit verbal root kṛ, “to do or make.” In Hindu, Buddhist, and related traditions, the word developed specialized meanings concerning the consequences of action. English later extended it informally to describe an apparently fitting consequence of someone’s conduct, sometimes without its full religious significance.
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