combe

发音

UK /kuːm/
其它

词形变化

combes 复数 combes

别名

comb coomb coombe

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A valley, often wooded and often with no river

  2. 2.

    A cirque.

相关短语

Combe Hay Combe Florey Combe Martin Combe St Nicholas Monkton Combe Abbas Combe La Combe Haccombe with Combe Castle Combe

词源

From Middle English coumbe, cumbe, from Old English cumb, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz; compare Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”), German Kump (“vessel”). Related to Welsh cwm (“a hollow valley”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “hollow”), Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”), etc. through Proto-Indo-European *ḱumbʰ-.

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