curry的词源

英文词源

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 *garǣthjan, 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."

1. 咖喱，来自南印度语，也叫做masala. 如masala chicken, masala mutton.

2. 梳理马毛，来自古法语correier, 来自reier, 准备，整理，词源同ready. 常见于短语curry favor, 给马刷毛，比喻义拍马屁，favor，来自常见马名Fauve拼写俗化，词源同fallow, pale, 即灰白色马或栗色马。

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咖喱是一种由多种香料调配而成的酱料，最早源自印度，用蔬菜或肉类做成，且经常与米饭一起食用。英语中表示咖喱的单词curry来自印度南部的泰米尔语kari，是当地人对这种酱料的称呼。