rib
要点肋骨
意味
- 肋骨(ろっこつ),あばら骨
- (骨付きの)あばら肉
- 肋骨状の物;(船の)肋骨,肋材(ろくざい);(丸天井の)リブ(ろく);(建物・橋の)横ばり;(かさなどの)骨
- 葉脈(vein)
- (編物・織物の)うね
- …に肋骨(肋材)をつける
- 〈編物〉にうね模様をつける
- 《話》…をいじめる,からかう
例文
He elbowed me in the ribs.
彼はひじで私の脇腹をつついた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English rib, ribbe, from Old English ribb (“rib”), from Proto-West Germanic *ribi, from Proto-Germanic *ribją (“rib, reef”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rebʰ- (“arch, ceiling, cover”). Cognate with Dutch rib (“rib”), Norwegian ribbe (“sparerib”), Norwegian ribben (“rib”), Low German ribbe (“rib”), German Rippe (“rib”), Old Norse rif (“rib, reef”), Serbo-Croatian rèbro (“rib”). (wife or woman): In reference to the creation of Eve from Adam's rib in the Bible.