rope
要点なわ、名,
意味
- なわ,綱,ロープ;(1本の)なわ
- 一つながり(の…)《+of+名》
- 《the~》絞首索;絞首刑
- 投げなわ
- 《複数形で》ロープス(ボクシングなどでリングを囲った綱)
- …をなわで縛る(くくる)《+up+名,+名+up》
- 〈場所〉をなわで囲う(仕切る)《+off+名,+名+off》
- 《米》…を投げなわで捕らえる
- 〈登山者が〉ロープで体を結び合わせる《+up》
- 〈登山者が〉(…を)ロープで登る(降りる)《+up(down)+名》
例文
Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself.
泥棒にロープを十分に与えれば、彼は首吊りをするであろう。
To braid the rope only after the thief is caught.
泥棒を見て縄をなう。
I held on to the rope tightly so I wouldn't fall.
落ちないようにロープを握りしめた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English rop, rope, from Old English rāp (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *h₁reyp- (“to peel off, tear; border, edge, strip”). Cognates Cognate with Scots rape, raip (“rope”), Saterland Frisian Roop (“rope”), West Frisian reap (“rope, cord”), Dutch roop, reep (“rope, cord, ring, strip, bar”), German Low German Reep (“rope”), German Reif (“ring, hoop”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish rep (“rope”), Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk reip (“rope”), Danish reb (“rope”), Icelandic reipi (“rope”), Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”).