broom

• n. ほうき；ブーゲンビリア
• vt.掃く
• vi.山の頂上で開花または分裂する
• n.（ほうき）人名；（英）Broom

語源的にはbur, burr-fruit, bristle, prickly hairと同じ。元々は低木を指したが、後に低木に結わえられた掃き掃除用の道具を指すようになった。

broom

broom: [OE] Broom was originally the name of the yellow-flowered bush; its application to the long-handled brush did not come about until the 15th century (the underlying notion is of a brush made from broom twigs tied to a handle). The plant-name occurs throughout the Germanic languages, but it is applied to quite a wide range of plants: Old High German brāmma, for instance, is a ‘wild rose’; Old Saxon hiopbrāmio is a ‘hawthorn bush’; and English bramble probably comes from the same source.
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broom (n.)

Old English brom "broom, brushwood," the common flowering shrub whose twigs were tied together to make a tool for sweeping, from Proto-Germanic *br?maz "thorny bush" (cognates: Dutch braam, German Brombeere "blackberry"), from PIE root *bh(e)rem- "to project, a point."

Traditionally, both the flowers and sweeping with broom twigs were considered unlucky in May (Suffolk, Sussex, Wiltshire, etc.). The witch's flying broomstick originally was one among many such objects (pitchfork, trough, bowl), but the broomstick became fixed as the popular tool of supernatural flight via engravings from a famous Lancashire witch trial of 1612.

1. Get a broom and sweep up that glass will you？

箒を持ってそのガラスをきれいに掃除してくれませんか。

2.I couldn 't afford more than a broom cupboard to set up office in.

私のお金でも鶏小屋の大きいオフィスを作ることができます。

3.She is sweeping with a broom .

彼女は箒で床を掃いている。

4.He stood his broom behind the door.

ドアの後ろにほうきを立てた。dd>

5.I can 't sweep without a broom .

箒がないと掃くことができません。