bastとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /bɑːst/
• (General American) IPA: /bæst/
• 韻: -ɑːst, -æst

語源 1

From 中期英語 bast, from 古期英語 bæst (“bast, inner bark of trees from which ropes were made”), from Proto-West Germanic *bast, from Proto-Germanic *bastaz (“bast, rope”) (compare the Swedish bast, Dutch bast, German Bast), perhaps an alteration of Proto-Indo-European *bʰask-, *bʰasḱ- (“bundle”) (compare Middle Irish basc (“necklace”), Latin fascis (“bundle”), Albanian bashkë (“tied, linked”)).

別の表記

• bass

名詞

bast (countable and uncountable, plural basts)

1. Inner bark of a tree from which rope is traditionally made.
2. Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants (particularly the lime tree) and used for making ropes, cords and matting.
   • 1912, John Galsworthy, Quality:

     [T]here would be seen his face, or that of his elder brother, peering down. A guttural sound, and the tip-tap of bast slippers beating the narrow wooden stairs, and he would stand before one without coat, a little bent, in leather apron, with sleeves turned back, blinking […]

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.

   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 87

     I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast.

   • 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, translated by Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 145:

     He had taken along a long bast rope in his sleigh, since it was the custom on longer journeys to have a spare rope in case the reins needed mending.

語源 2

From 中期英語 bast, from a back-formation of 中期英語 bastard.

名詞

bast (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Bastardy, illegitimacy of birth.

形容詞

bast (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Illegitimate, born out of wedlock.

アナグラム

• ABTs, ATBs, ATSB, BTAS, Bats, SATB, STAB, TBAs, TBSA, Tabs, bats, stab, tabs

別の表記

• baste

発音

• IPA: /bast/

名詞

bast (plural bastes)

1. A cord or cable manufactured using bast.
2. (rare) Bast; fibre made from the phloem of plants.

派生した語

• English: bast, bass
• Scots: bass

参照

• “bast, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-03.

語源 2

Borrowed from Old French bast (French bât), probably a back-formation from bastard.

別の表記

• baste, baaste

発音

• IPA: /baːst/

名詞

bast (uncountable)

1. Illegitimacy; the state of being illegitimate.

派生語

• bastard

参照

• “bāst, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-03.