shrubとは

語源 1

From Middle English schrub, schrob, (also unassibilated as scrub), from 古期英語 *scrob (in placenames) and scrybb (“a shrub; shrubbery; underbrush”); akin to Norwegian skrubbe (“the dwarf cornel tree”).

名詞

shrub (複数形 shrubs)

1. A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.

同意語

• bush (plant)

派生語

動詞

shrub (三人称単数 現在形 shrubs, 現在分詞 shrubbing, 過去形および過去分詞形 shrubbed)

1. (obsolete) To lop; to prune.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Anderson (1573) to this entry?)

2. (transitive, Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation.

   For example, /ʃɹʌb/ → /sɹʌb/

語源 2

From Arabic شِرَاب‎ (širāb, “a drink, beverage”), شَرِبَ‎ (šariba, “to drink”), akin to syrup, sherbet

名詞

shrub (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 shrubs)

1. A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.

アナグラム

• Brush, bruhs, brush, burhs