English Dictionary

kobold

名詞

ドイツ語

(German mythology) An ambivalent, sometimes vindictive, spirit that is capable of materialising as an object or human, often a child; a sprite.

日本語の意味

ドイツ神話に登場する、相反する性質を持つ精霊。物体や人間、しばしば子供の姿として現れることがあり、時には復讐心を示す存在として描かれる。

At dusk the kobold took the shape of a little boy and left a wooden horse on the hearth, a gift that felt like both comfort and warning.

夕暮れになると家の精霊は小さな少年の姿を取り、暖炉の上に木馬を残した──慰めであると同時に警告でもある贈り物だった。

意味（1）

(German mythology) An ambivalent, sometimes vindictive, spirit that is capable of materialising as an object or human, often a child; a sprite.

At this point a cock crew, and the youth jumped up hastily saying : 'Of course I shall ride with the king to the war, and if I do not return, take your violin every evening to the seashore and play on it, so that the very sea-kobolds who live at the bottom of the ocean may hear it and come to you.'

意味（2）

(German folklore) A mischievous elf or goblin, or one connected (and helpful) to a family or household.

The king had seen all kinds of gnomes, goblins, and kobolds at his coronation; […] .

意味（3）

(fantasy literature) One of a diminutive and usually malevolent race of beings.

There were also various trolls like great smiling badgers, brownies darting about laughing, dwarves with large gray heads, sensuous mermaids, stony kobolds, green gnomes, sirens and many elves, who were busy purifying the sacred hilltop in a mythological cooperation marvelous to the soul's perception.

kobolds （ plural ）