bower

(Английский)

Noun

1. A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
2. (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
3. A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
4. A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.

Verb

1. To embower; to enclose.
2. (obsolete) To lodge.

Этимология (Английский)

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: bour

Унаследовано от староанглийский: būr

Родственно Saterfriesisch: Búur

Родственно немецкий: Bauer

Родственно старонорвежский: búr

Родственно датский: bur

Родственно норвежский букмол: bur

Родственно шведский: bur

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: boueer

Родственно нидерландский: boer

Родственно албанский: burrë

In summary

From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“room, abode”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“storage room, utility room; cage”), German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (“cage”) (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur).

Синонимы

arbour

arbor

pergola

boudoir

embower

cottage

chamber

thicket

grove

trellis

square gazebo

shade of tree

bow-maker

bower anchor

booth

dinner party

jollification

meeting

party

🥳

soiree

summerhouse

summer house

Переводы

Laube

prieel

tonnelle

κληματαριά

pergola

enramada

glorieta

emparrado

pergolato

πέργολα

altana

gloreita

Gartenlaube

Altan

emparrat