bead
要点ビーズ、じゅず玉
意味
- ビーズ,じゅず玉,ガラス玉;《複数形で》じゅず(rosary),ネックレス
- (玉のような)露,しずく
- (銃の)照星,ねらい
- …を玉で飾る;…をじゅずつなぎにする
- 〈水などが〉玉(しずく)となる
例文
His naked back and arms were beaded with sweat.
彼は裸の背中と腕に玉のような汗をかいていた。
There were beads of sweat on his forehead.
彼の額には玉のような汗が浮かんでいた。
Her brow was beaded with perspiration.
彼女の額は玉の汗だった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English bede (“a prayer”), also “a bead for counting prayers” in a peire of bedes (literally “a pair of beads”), from Old English bedu, bed, ġebed (“a request, entreaty, prayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bedu, *bed, *gabed, from Proto-Germanic *bedō, *bedą. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gebäd (“prayer”), Cimbrian gapéet (“prayer”), Dutch gebed and bede (“prayer”), German Gebet (“prayer”), Low German Gebett (“prayer”), Luxembourgish Gebiet (“prayer”), Vilamovian gybāt (“prayer”).