babe
意味
- 《文》赤ん坊
- うぶな人,世間知らず
- 《米俗》=baby
例文
The cradle is as brand new as the born babe lying in it.
このゆりかごは、中に寝ている生まれたばかりの赤ん坊と同じように新しい。
I can't believe you're so clueless. You're like a babe in the woods.
世間知らずにもほどがある。井の中の蛙大海を知らず、ということかね。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English babe, a variant of earlier baban, perhaps from Old English *baba (“boy, child”), from Proto-West Germanic *babō, from Proto-Germanic *babô, reduplicated variant of *ba-, *bō- (“father, brother, close male relation”). cognates and related terms Related to Old Frisian bobba (“child”) (whence North Frisian babbe, babb, babe (“child”)), Old High German Babo (a male forename), see boy. Otherwise, origin obscure. Compare mama, dada, papa. Welsh baban (“baby”), believed by Skeat to be a mutation of maban, a diminutive of mab (“son”), is probably rather a borrowing from English. Cognate also with English bub.