noria

n. (西班牙和东方国家的)戽水车

发音

UK /ˈnɔː.ɹɪə/
US /ˈnɔɹ.i.ə/

词形变化

norias 复数 norias

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A treadwheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water.

  2. 2.

    Any mechanism using buckets to raise water to an aqueduct.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

waterwheel

词源

From Spanish noria, from Arabic نَاعُورَة (nāʕūra), from Classical Syriac ܢܥܘܪܬܐ (nāʿōrtāʾ, “water wheel; growler”), from ܢܥܪ (nʿar, “to roar, growl, bray”).

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