pawpawとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Via Portuguese and Spanish papaya (which is botanically unrelated) from Galibi Carib kapaja; the reason for the change in spelling is unknown.

Via Yuchi pahpah

別の表記

• paw-paw

名詞

pawpaw (複数形 pawpaws)

1. Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:
   1. Asimina, a genus of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, especially common pawpaw (Asimina triloba)
   2. Papaya (Carica papaya), a widely cultivated tropical fruit tree
   3. Mountain pawpaw (Vasconcellea pubescens), a fruit tree native to South America
2. The fruit of these trees.

   Synonyms: bandango, custard apple, hillbilly mango, prairie banana

   • [2015, Andrew Moore, Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit, Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:

     Throughout the years it's gone by a lot of names—frost banana, Indiana banana, fetid-bush, bandango, custard apple, prairie banana, poor man's banana—but most of the time it's just been called pawpaw. At first glance, both the fruit and the tree seem out of place in North America.]

   • 2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 254:

     Xavier sliced the pawpaw in half, emptying the tiny black seeds over the veranda wall.

   • 2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     If there were such a thing as an anticapitalist fruit, the pawpaw, commonly foraged in the wild and inherently resistant to commodification, might qualify.

Further reading

• pawpaw on Wikipedia.
• Asimina triloba on Wikispecies.

語源 2

Related to papa, or pa(w) pa(w) (one’s father’s father).

別の表記

• papaw, pappaw

名詞

pawpaw (複数形 pawpaws)

1. (dialectal or colloquial) Grandfather.

使用する際の注意点

• Often used as a term of address and hence capitalized, as Pawpaw or PawPaw (または in other spellings, e.g. Paw Paw).

同意語

• peepaw, pepaw

参考

• mamaw