gymkhana
英 [dʒɪm'kɑːnə]
美[dʒɪm'kɑnə]
- n. 比赛，运动会；竞技场，体育馆
词态变化
复数: gymkhanas;
中文词源
gymkhana 赛马会
来自印度语，集会。
英文词源
- gymkhana
- gymkhana: [19] The British brought the word gymkhana back with them from India, where they found it as Hindi gendkhāna, literally ‘ballhouse’, the name given to a racket court. The first syllable gym- is generally assumed to be an alteration of gend- on the analogy of gymnasium. The term was originally used for a ‘sports ground’; the current sense ‘horse-riding contest’ seems to have developed after World War I.
- gymkhana (n.)
- 1854, Anglo-Indian, said to be from Hindustani gend-khana, literally "ball house," said in Yule & Burnell's 1886 glossary of Anglo-Indian words to be "the name usually given in Hindu to an English racket-court." The second element is from Middle Persian khan "house," from Iranian *ahanam "seat," from PIE *es- "to sit." Altered in English by influence of gymnasium, etc.