pear
要点西洋ナシ
意味
- 西洋ナシ;西洋ナシの木
例文
The pears we eat in Japan look almost like apples.
私たちが日本で食べるナシは、まるでリンゴのような形をしています。
Lend me a knife with which to peel this pear.
このなしの皮をむくナイフを貸して下さい。
I caught him stealing pears in the orchard.
私は彼が果樹園でナシを盗んでいるところを見つけた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English pere, from Old English pere, from Proto-West Germanic *peru, from Vulgar Latin pira, originally the plural of Latin pirum but reconstrued as a feminine singular, ultimately a loanword from an unknown Mediterranean substrate source. Cognate with Scots peer (“pear”), Saterland Frisian Peere, Pere (“pear”), West Frisian par (“pear”), Dutch peer (“pear”), Danish, Greenlandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk pære (“pear”), Faroese, Icelandic pera (“pear”), Swedish päron (“pear”), German Birne (“pear”), Luxembourgish Bier, Bir (“pear”), Vilamovian biyn (“pear”), Yiddish באַר (bar, “pear”), French poire (“pear”).