bean

• n. 豆; 口の峰; 価値のないもの
• vt.物の頭を打つ。
• n.(豆)人名;(英)Bean.

語源は不明。

bean

bean: [OE] The word bean (Old English bēan) has relatives in several Germanic languages (German bohne, Dutch boon, Swedish b?na), pointing to a common West and North Germanic source *baunō, but that is as far back in history as we can pursue it. Beanfeast [19] apparently derived from the practice of serving bacon and beans (or, according to some, bean geese, a species of goose) at the annual dinners given by firms to their employees in the 19th century. Beano, originally a printers’ abbreviation, appears towards the end of the 19th century.

bean (n.)

Old English bean "bean, pea, legume," from Proto-Germanic *bauno (cognates: Old Norse baun, Middle Dutch bone, Dutch boon, Old High German bona, German Bohne), and related to Latin faba "bean;" Greek phakos "lentil;" Albanian bath? "horse-bean;" Old Prussian babo, Russian bob "bean," but the original form is obscure; perhaps from a PIE reduplicated base *bha-bha-

As a metaphor for "something of small value" it is attested from c. 1300. Meaning "head" is U.S. baseball slang c. 1905 (in bean-ball "a pitch thrown at the head"); thus slang verb bean meaning "to hit on the head," attested from 1910.

The notion of lucky or magic beans in English folklore is from the exotic beans or large seeds that wash up occasionally in Cornwall and western Scotland, carried from the Caribbean or South America by the Gulf Stream. They were cherished, believed to ward off the evil eye and aid in childbirth.

Slang bean-counter "accountant" recorded by 1971. To not know beans (American English, 1933) is perhaps from the "of little worth" sense, but may have a connection to colloquial expression recorded around Somerset, to know how many beans make five "be a clever fellow."

1. It doesn 't cost a bean .

この一銭も使わない。

2.See p.246 for Thom Bean 's response.トム?ビーンの回答は246ページを参照。

3. Bean sprouts are also sold in cans.

缶もやしも販売されている。

4.The name of generated interface will be derived from the bean name.

生成インタフェースの名前は bean の名前から由来しています。

5.An enterprise Bean 's remote interface provides the remote client view of an EJB object.

エンタープライズ Bean のリモートインタフェースは、EJBオブジェクトのリモートクライアントビューを提供する。