loaf
要点パンの一塊、塊
意味
- (一定の形に焼いた)パンの一塊
- (ある形にした食品の)塊
- 砂糖の円すい形の塊(=sugar loaf)
- のらくらする,ぶらつく《+around(along),《英》about》;(…を)ぶらつく《+about(along)+名》
- 〈時〉をのらくらと過ごす《+名+away》
例文
A loaf of bread is better than the songs of birds.
花より団子。
This knife is just good for slicing a loaf.
このナイフはパンを薄切りにするのにちょうどよい。
He will work one day and loaf the next day.
彼は一日働いては次の日ぶらぶらしている。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English laf, lof, loof, from Old English hlāf (“bread; loaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaib, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (“bread; loaf”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Old English hlifian (“to stand out prominently, tower up”). Cognates Cognate with German Laib (“loaf”), Danish and Swedish lev (“loaf”), Faroese leivur (“an oblong bun”), Icelandic hleifur (“loaf”), Norwegian Nynorsk leiv (“loaf”), Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐍃 (hlaibs), 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃 (hlaifs, “bread”) (whence Proto-Slavic *xlěbъ (“bread”) (see there for further descendants)), Estonian leib (“black bread”), Finnish leipä (“bread; loaf”); also Latvian klaips (“loaf”), Lithuanian kliẽpas (“loaf”). Doublet of chleb and khleb.