drum

• vt.太鼓をたたく；懸命に戦う
• vi. 太鼓を打つ；努力する
• n.ドラム
• n.（ドラム）人名；（英）Drum；（独）Drum

太鼓の音を模したオノマトペ。

drum

drum: [16] Belying the total lack of similarity between the instruments, drum, trumpet, and trombone seem to be closely related. Drum appears to be a shortening of a slightly earlier English word drumslade ‘drum, drummer’, which was borrowed from Low German trommelslag ‘drumbeat’. This was a compound noun formed from trommel ‘drum’ and slag ‘hit’ (related to English slay).

An alternative view is that English simply acquired the word from Middle Dutch tromme. Both these Germanic forms meant simply ‘drum’, but the picture becomes more complex with Middle High German tromme ‘drum’, for originally this had the sense ‘trumpet’, and what is more it had a variant form trumbe (its ancestor, Old High German trumpa, ultimate source of English trumpet and trombone, only meant ‘trumpet’).

So the picture that emerges is of a word that originally referred in a fairly undifferentiated way to any musical instrument that made a loud noise.
=> trombone, trumpet

drum (n.)

1540s, probably from Middle Dutch tromme "drum," common Germanic (compare German Trommel, Danish tromme, Swedish trumma), probably of imitative origin. Not common before 1570s. Slightly older, and more common at first, was drumslade, apparently from Dutch or Low German trommelslag. Machinery sense attested from 1740, from similarity of shape.

drum (v.)

1570s, from drum (n.). To drum (up) business, etc., is American English 1839, from the old way of drawing a crowd.

1. As he sang he kept time on a small drum .

彼は歌いながらビートと一緒にドラムをたたいた。

2.The trade secretery disagreed but promised to "bang the drum for industry ".

貿易相は同意しなかったが、「産業界のために旗を振る」と約束した。

The drum is one of the oldest musical instruments.

ドラムは最古の楽器の1つです。

4.We 've leafleted the university today to try to drum up some support.

私たちは今日大学でチラシを配布しました。支持を勝ち取りたいと思っています。

5.The new government seemed rather hum- drum .

新政府は平凡で無能に見える。