'''アンカ'''(アラビア語:عَنْقَاء、ローマ字表記:ʾAnqāʾ)<ref name="lane">Lane Edward William , Arabic-English Lexicon , 1863 , Cosimo Classics , London ,isbn:9781616408985 , page2177 , http://www.tyndalearchive.com/TABS/Lane// , access-date:3 October 2019</ref>、または''Anka''、またはアンカ・ムーグリブ(''Anqa Mughrib'')、アンカ・アル・ムーグリブ(アラビア語:العَنْقَاء المُغْرِب、ローマ字表記:''Anqa al-Mughrib'')とも表記される。)<ref>مُغْرِب , '''Mughrib''') is the person who throw people down toward west or during sunset</ref>は、アラビア神話に登場する大きくて神秘的な、あるいは素晴らしい雌の鳥である。アンカは遠くまで飛び、何年かに一度しか現れないと言われている。しかし、アンカ「太陽が沈む場所」にも出没すると言われている<ref name="lane"/>。
==Etymology and notes語源と注釈 ==
The word ''ʿanqāʾ'' is the feminine form of ''ʾaʿnaq'' ({{lang|ar|أعنق}}) meaning "long-necked" and also "long and thick in the neck". This probably implies that the bird resembles a [[heron]] or [[crane (bird)|crane]] (or other long-necked birds) or simply has a large strong neck like an [[eagle]] or [[falcon]] (or other [[birds of prey|raptors]]) with which she was identified by some.<ref name="lane"/> The word ''muḡrib'' has a number of meanings signifying "strange, foreign", "distant, remote", "west, sunset", "desolated, unknown" and "white, dawn" and expresses the enigma as well as unreality associated with the creature.