loof

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The palm of the hand. Northern-England,Scotland,dialectal
  2. A contrivance (apparently a paddle or an oar) used for altering the course of a ship. obsolete
  3. The spongy fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Luffa aegyptiaca). uncountable
  4. The hand, especially, the hand outspread and upturned. Northern-England,Scotland,dialectal
  5. The after part of the bow of a ship where the sides begin to curve.

词形变化

loofs plural loofs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
loofball

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English love, lufe, lofe, luf (“palm of the hand”), from Old Norse lōfi, from Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“palm of the hand; paw; oar blade, paddle”).
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English lof (“a contrivance for altering a ship's course, paddle, oar”), from Middle Dutch loef (“an oar or paddle used in steering”), ultimately of the same origin as Etymology 1. Compare luff.
词源 3
From Egyptian Arabic لُوف (lūf).
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