bamboo

• n. 竹、バンブー
• vt.
• adj.竹；土着

語源は不明。

bamboo

bamboo: [16] Bamboo appears to come from a Malay word mambu. This was brought back to Europe by the Portuguese explorers, and enjoyed a brief currency in English from the 17th to the 18th century. However, for reasons no one can explain, the initial m of this word became changed to b, and it acquired an s at the end, producing a form found in Latin texts of the time as bambusa. This appears to have passed into English via Dutch bamboes, so the earliest English version of the word was bambos. As so often happens in such cases, the final s was misinterpreted as a plural ending, so it dropped off to give the new ‘singular’ bamboo.

bamboo (n.)

1590s, from Dutch bamboe, from Portuguese bambu, earlier mambu (16c.), probably from Malay samambu, though some suspect this is itself an imported word.

1. It is well known that bamboo shots are a panda 's staple diet.

たけのこはパンダの主要な食べ物であることはよく知られている。

2.Sadly, bamboo plants die after flowering.

残念なことに、竹は花が咲くと枯死する。

3.The panda 's natural habitat is the bamboo forest.

ジャイアントパンダの天然生息地は竹林である。

4.The bamboo whipped back and hit me in the face.

その竹は突然私の顔に跳ね返った。

5.Each bamboo house was surrounded by a thriving orchard.

各竹やぐらの周りは茂った果樹園になっている。