bere

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /bɪə/    美 /bɪɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley. Scotland,uncountable
  2. A pillowcase; a fabric case or covering as for a pillow; a pillowbere. dialectal
    — Woven and embroidered coverlets in imitation of tapestry appear as 'a tapestry covering which lieth on my bed' [...] 'a pillow of feathers with a bere' (pillow-case); 'two pillows and the beres to [cover them]'

词形变化

bear alternative beres plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English bere (“barley”), from Old English bere (“barley”), from Proto-West Germanic *barī, from Proto-Germanic *baraz (“barley”). Compare Welsh bara (“bread”), Latin far (“emmer”), Serbo-Croatian бра̏шно/brȁšno (“flour”), Albanian bar (“grass”), Ancient Greek Φήρον (Phḗron, “plant deity”). See also: barley.
词源 2
See bear (“pillowcase”)
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