karaoke的词源

英文词源

karaoke: karaoke: [20] The conceptual basis of this term, enthusiastically adopted in the West from Japan in the latter part of the 20th century, is of a backing or accompaniment waiting to be ‘filled’ by a singer or other soloist. In Japanese, it means literally ‘empty orchestra’: kara is ‘empty’ (it also appears in English karate [20], literally ‘empty hand’) and oke is short for okesutora – originally a Japanization of English orchestra.
karaoke (n.): 1979, Japanese, from kara "empty" + oke "orchestra," shortened form of okesutora, which is a Japanization of English orchestra.

来自日语，kara,空的，可能来自日本化汉语空，oke,缩写自orchestra,管弦乐队。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：karaoke 词源，karaoke 含义。

kara-是日文的“空，empty”;-oke和常用语OK无关，而是最终来自对orchestra（管弦乐队）的缩略。“空”即无形，所以字面义为“无形的乐队”，结合卡拉OK的特点还是容易理解的。