purse
要点ハンドバッグ、さいふ、名,
意味
- 《米》(婦人用)ハンドバッグ
- さいふ
- 《単数形で》資金,資力,財力
- 賞金,寄付金
- 〈くちびるなど〉をすぼめる,〈まゆ〉をひそめる《+up+名,+名+up》
例文
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
雌豚の耳から絹の財布は作れない。
Paul wasn't with Mary when her purse was stolen.
ポールはメアリーが財布を盗まれたときは彼女といっしょではなかった。
I had my purse stolen somewhere on my way home.
私は帰宅の途中どこかで財布を盗まれた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English purs, from Old English purs (“purse”), partly from pusa (“wallet, bag, scrip”) and partly from burse (“pouch, bag”). Old English pusa comes from Proto-West Germanic *pusō, from Proto-Germanic *pusô (“bag, sack, scrip”), and is cognate with Old High German pfoso (“pouch, purse”), Low German pūse (“purse, bag”), Old Norse posi (“purse, bag”), Danish pose (“purse, bag”). Old English burse comes from Medieval Latin bursa (“leather bag”) (compare English bursar), from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”). Compare also Old French borse (French bourse), Old Saxon bursa (“bag”), Old High German burissa (“wallet”).