spinach

• n. ほうれん草

アングロ?フランス語の spinache から、古フランス語の espinoche から、アラビア語の isfanak から、ペルシャ語の ispanakh から、緑の野菜。以前はペルシャ語として知られていた中国のほうれん草と比較。

spinach

spinach: [16] The ultimate origin of the word spinach is Persian aspanākh, which passed via Arabic isfināj, medieval Latin spinachia, and Spanish espinaca into Old French as espinache. Middle Dutch borrowed this as spinaetse, the probable source of English spinach. It has been speculated that the change of form from Arabic to Latin may have been partly motivated by the ‘spiny’ seeds of certain types of spinach.

spinach (n.)

c. 1400 (late 13c. as a surname), from Anglo-French spinache, Old French espinache (14c., Modern French épinard, from a form with a different suffix), from Old Proven?al espinarc, which perhaps is via Catalan espinac, from Andalusian Arabic isbinakh, from Arabic isbanakh, from Persian aspanakh "spinach." But OED is not convinced the Middle Eastern words are native, and based on the plethora of Romanic forms pronounces the origin "doubtful."

Popeye, the spinach-eating superman, debuted in 1929. Old folk etymology connected the word with Latin spina (see spine) or with Medieval Latin Hispanicum olus. For pronunciation, see cabbage. In 1930s colloquial American English, it had a sense of "nonsense, rubbish," based on a famous "New Yorker" cartoon of Dec. 8, 1928. Related: spinaceous.

1. Eating spinach is supposed to make you strong.

ほうれん草を食べると強くなると言われています。

2.The spinach is shrivelled up.

ほうれん草がしおれた.

3.You should eat such vegetables as carrot，celery and spinach .

ニンジン、セロリ、ほうれん草などの野菜を食べるべきだ。

4.The transacetylase system was also present in spinach leaves.

ほうれん草の葉にもトランスアセチル酵素系が存在する。

5.Either you eat your spinach or you go without ice-cream.

ほうれん草を食べたか、アイスクリームを食べなかったか。