meowing
鳴く
解説 Definition
meowing は meow（猫がニャーと鳴く）の現在分詞・動名詞です。猫の鳴き声を表す語で、人や物の音には普通使いません。
The present participle or gerund of meow, meaning that a cat is making its characteristic short, crying sound. It normally describes the voice of a domestic cat rather than a sound made by a person, another animal, or a machine.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 meow は猫の「ニャー」という声を写した擬音語で、語末を変えずに -ing を加えて meowing となります。発音は meow の二重母音の後に /ɪŋ/ が続きます。a cat is meowing、keep meowing のように、猫が餌や注意を求めて繰り返し鳴く場面に限定して覚えましょう。
Start with meow, an imitation of a cat’s familiar cry, and add -ing without changing the spelling of the base word. The pronunciation keeps the “meow” sound and adds “ing.” Picture a kitten meowing at a closed door or a hungry cat that keeps meowing until it is fed. Those common situations fix both the sound and the action in memory. Unlike cry, which can describe people and many animals, meowing is normally reserved for the characteristic call of a cat.
例文
The kitten is meowing at the door.
子猫がドアのところで鳴いています。
I heard a cat meowing outside my window.
窓の外で猫が鳴いているのが聞こえました。
The old cat kept meowing until someone gave it food.
その年老いた猫は、誰かが餌をやるまで鳴き続けました。
meowing の類義語・関連語
meowing の語源・成り立ち Etymology
英語の擬音語（オノマトペ）で、猫の鳴き声を模倣した語。中英語"mewen"に遡り、世界中の言語で猫の声は似た音で表される。動詞meowに進行形-ingが付いた形。関連語: mew（鳴く）、caterwaul（猫が騒ぐ）。
Meowing is formed by adding -ing to meow. Meow is an imitative, or onomatopoeic, word representing the characteristic sound of a cat. English has used related written forms, including mew, since the Middle English period. Because speakers interpret animal sounds through their own languages, exact spellings vary, but many languages use broadly similar consonant and vowel patterns for a cat’s cry.
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