caravan

• n. トレーラー（居住可能な）、キャラバン; キャラバン（例：砂漠地帯を走る）; 移動式住居; 移民列車
• vi. トレーラーで休暇を過ごす；キャラバンで旅行する

ペルシャ語から

caravan

caravan: [16] Caravans have no etymological connection with cars, nor with char-a-bancs. The word comes ultimately from Persian kārwān ‘group of desert travellers’, and came into English via French caravane. Its use in English for ‘vehicle’ dates from the 17th century, but to begin with it referred to a covered cart for carrying passengers and goods (basis of the shortened form van [19]), and in the 19th century it was used for the basic type of thirdclass railway carriage; its modern sense of ‘mobile home’ did not develop until the late 19th century. Caravanserai ‘inn for accommodating desert caravans’ [16] comes from Persian kārwānserāī: serāī means ‘palace, inn’, and was the source, via Italian, of seraglio ‘harem’ [16].
=> caravanserai, van

caravan (n.)

1580s, from Middle French caravane, from Old French carvane, carevane "caravan" (13c.), or Medieval Latin caravana, picked up during the Crusades from Persian karwan "group of desert travelers" (which Klein connects to Sanskrit karabhah "camel"). Used in English for "vehicle" 17c., especially for a covered cart. Hence, in modern British use (from 1930s), often a rough equivalent of the U.S. mobile home.

1. Pendergood had shovelled the sand out of the caravan .

ペンデグッドはワゴン車の砂をすくった。

2.Each caravan is equipped for four persons.

各アクティブルームのデバイスは4人で使用できます。

3.The caravan was raked with bullets.

車列が銃弾掃射を受けた。

4.The community adviser gave us a caravan to live in.

コミュニティコンサルタントがアクティブな住宅の住まいを与えてくれた。

5.He packed off his wife and children to stay in a caravan in Wales.

彼はウェールズにある旅行トレーラーに妻子を派遣して住んでいる。