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語源

Borrowed from Portuguese bétele, from Malayalam വെറ്റില (veṟṟila) or Tamil வெற்றிலை (veṟṟilai).

発音

• IPA: /ˈbiːtəl/
• 異形同音異義語: beetle, Beatle

名詞

betel (usually uncountable, plural betels)

1. Either of two (parts of) plants often used in combination:
   • 1958, R. K. Narayan, The Guide, Penguin, published 1988, page 194:

     Her face was flushed with the tingling effect of betel leaves.

   1. An evergreen Indian creeping shrub, Piper betle, whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut: the betel pepper.
   2. The betel palm, Areca catechu, and in particular its seed, the areca nut or betel nut.
2. A quid (chewing preparation) containing these and other plant materials; paan.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 126:

     In a small Bamboo case, prettily carved and ornamented, the Dyak carries his sirih and lime for betel chewing, and his little long-bladed knife has a Bamboo sheath.

   • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Burmese Days‎:

     He went to the rail to spit out a scarlet mouthful of betel […]

   • 2002, Vātsyāyana, translated by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar, Kama Sutra, Oxford University Press, 3.3.16, pp. 83-84:

     Within the range of his powers, he sends her, secretly, […] cosmetics such as red lac, red arsenic, yellow arsenic, red mercury sulphide, and black collyrium; sandalwood paste and saffron; and, in course of time, areca nuts and betel leaves for betel.

派生語

参考

アナグラム

• let be

語源

From 古期英語 bȳtel, bīetel (“hammer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautil (“hammer, mallet”), equivalent to beten +‎ -le.

発音

• IPA: /ˈbeːtəl/

名詞

betel (plural betels)

1. mallet, maul, hammer
2. bat, club, cudgel

派生語

• batildore

派生した語

• English: beetle
• ⇒ Yola: balbeedhel

参照

• “bẹ̄tel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.