lamb

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ˈleə̯m/|[ˈleəm]|/ˈlɛə̯m/|[ˈlɛə̯m]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A young sheep. countable,uncountable
    — Mary had a little lamb, its fleece as white as snow.
  2. A young goat; a kid. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Exodus 12:5: “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:”
  3. The flesh of a lamb used as food; (sometimes loosely) the flesh of a sheep of any age used as food. uncountable
  4. A person who is meek, docile, and easily led. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — Near-synonym: sheep
  5. Lambskin. countable,uncountable
    — They were as alike as prisoners, dressed in black silk waists and fitted skirts, with shawls of crimped black lamb across their shoulders.
  6. A simple, unsophisticated person. countable,uncountable
  7. One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized. countable,slang,uncountable
  8. A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969). countable,slang,uncountable
    — Part of me revels in the campiness of Mariah’s butterfly metaphors and puppies-and-kittens existence. […] But I also genuinely love her music, including this album. I’m one of her lambs.
动词 v.
  1. Of a sheep, to give birth. intransitive
  2. To assist (sheep) to give birth. intransitive,transitive
    — The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.

词形变化

lambs plural lamber dialectal,plural lambren plural lambs present,singular,third-person lambing participle,present lambed participle,past lambed past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-.
See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Bavarian Lamperl, Danish lam, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk.
词源 2
From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-.
See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Bavarian Lamperl, Danish lam, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk.
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