glove

Anlam (İngilizce)

Noun

1. An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.
2. A baseball mitt.
3. The ability to catch a hit ball.
4. (slang) A condom.
5. A challenge from one to another.

Verb

1. To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
2. To put a glove or gloves on.
3. To touch a delivery with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball.

(IPA) olarak telaffuz edilir

/ɡlʌv/

Etimoloji (İngilizce)

From Middle English glove, glofe, from Old English glōf, *glōfe, *glōfa, ("glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form glōfan (“gloves”)), from Proto-Germanic *galōfô (“glove”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- (“collective and associative prefix”) + Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“flat of the hand, palm”), from Proto-Indo-European *lāp-, *lēp-, *lep- (“flat”). Cognate with Scots gluve, gluive (“glove”), Icelandic glófi (“glove”). Related to Middle English lofe, lufe (“palm of the hand”). More at loof.