wipe
要点ふく、ふき取る、名,
意味
- 〈物など〉をふく,ぬぐう
- 〈よごれなど〉をふき取る,ぬぐい去る《+away(off)+名,+名+away(off)》;(…から)…をふき取る《+名+off(from, out of)+名》
- (…に)〈布など〉をこすりつけてふく(ぬぐう)《+名+over(across)+鳴》
- ふくこと,ぬぐうこと
例文
I request that you not forget to wipe the windows.
窓を拭くの忘れないでね。
Tom carefully wiped his fingerprints off the knife.
トムは念入りにナイフから指紋を拭き取った。
As Beth wiped tears from her face, she rushed home.
ベスは頬の涙をぬぐうと、家に走って帰っていきました。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English wipen, from Old English wīpian (“to wipe, rub, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīpōn (“to wipe”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to twist, wind around”). Cognate with German wippen (“to bob”), Swedish veva (“to turn, wind, crank”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍀𐌰𐌽 (weipan, “to wreathe, crown”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”), Sanskrit वेपते (vépate, “to tremble”). More at swivel, swift.