muffin
マフィン
解説 Definition
マフィンという意味です。muffin は小型の焼き菓子を指すほか、English muffin のような丸く平たいパンを指すこともあります。日本語の「マフィン」より少し範囲が広い場合があります。
A muffin is a small baked food, often a sweet, individual cake made in a cup-shaped mold. The word can also refer to a round, relatively flat bread, especially in the expression English muffin.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
muffin は日本語の「マフィン」より広く、blueberry muffin のような甘い小型焼き菓子だけでなく、English muffin という丸く平たいパンも指す。bake a muffin、warm muffin、muffin tin など、焼く場面の連語と一緒に覚えると両方の形を整理しやすい。
Connect muffin with two breakfast images rather than only one. A blueberry or chocolate muffin is a small, usually sweet baked cake with a rounded top, while an English muffin is a round, flatter bread that is often split and toasted. This broader range is important because English muffin does not mean the same shape as the typical sweet muffin familiar in Japan. Learn the word through common combinations such as “bake muffins,” “a warm muffin,” “blueberry muffin,” and “muffin tin.” The baking context and the modifier usually make the intended type clear.
例文
I bought a blueberry muffin for breakfast.
朝食にブルーベリーマフィンを買いました。
This muffin is soft and warm.
このマフィンは柔らかくて温かいです。
She baked a chocolate muffin for her friend.
彼女は友人のためにチョコレートマフィンを焼きました。
muffin の類義語・関連語
類義語
派生語
muffin の語源・成り立ち Etymology
中低ドイツ語 muffen（小さなケーキ）が語源とされる。古フランス語 mouflet（柔らかいパン）との関連も指摘される。muff（円筒形の防寒具）と同根で、丸くふっくらした形状が名前の由来。柔らかく膨らんだ小型パンのイメージが現在のマフィンにつながっている。
Muffin entered English in the early eighteenth century. It is often linked with Low German muffen, referring to small cakes, while a relationship with Old French mouflet, associated with soft bread, has also been proposed. These histories suit the early use of the word for a small, soft bread or cake, although the exact route is not completely certain. Associations with rounded, soft forms, including the word muff, have also been noted in accounts of its development.
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