curry

英 ['k?r?] 美['k?i]

TEM4低頻詞擴展詞匯

復數:?curries;第三人稱單數:?curries;過去式:?curried;過去分詞:?curried;現在分詞:?currying;

1. 音譯“咖喱”。

curry 咖喱，梳理馬毛

1. 咖喱，來自南印度語，也叫做masala. 如masala chicken, masala mutton.

2. 梳理馬毛，來自古法語correier, 來自reier, 準備，整理，詞源同ready. 常見于短語curry favor, 給馬刷毛，比喻義拍馬屁，favor，來自常見馬名Fauve拼寫俗化，詞源同fallow, pale, 即灰白色馬或栗色馬。

curry: curry: Of the two English words curry, the older, ‘groom a horse’ [13], is now almost forgotten except in the compound currycomb and the phrase curry favour. It comes, via Old French correier, from Vulgar Latin *conrēdāre ‘arrange, prepare, get ready’, which seems to have been an adaptation and partial translation of a prehistoric Germanic verb *gar?thjan, a derivative of the base which produced English ready.

The expression curry favour is a partial translation of Old French estriller favel or torcher favel, literally ‘groom a chestnut horse’, which, for reasons that are not known, was used as a metaphor for hypocritical behaviour; the word favel, unfamiliar to English speakers, was replaced with the semantically appropriate favour. Curry ‘spiced dish’ [16] was borrowed from Tamil kari ‘sauce’.
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curry (v.): late 13c., "to rub down a horse," from Anglo-French curreier "to curry-comb a horse," from Old French correier "put in order, prepare, curry," from con-, intensive prefix (see com-), + reier "arrange," from a Germanic source (see ready). Related: Curried; currying.
curry (n.): the spice, 1680s, from Tamil kari "sauce, relish for rice."

5. He brought her some flowers, hoping to curry favor with her.: 他給她帶來了一些花, 想討好她.