racket的词源

英文词源

racket

racket: Racket for playing tennis [16] and racket ‘noise’ [16] are unrelated words. The former was borrowed from French raquette, which originally meant ‘palm of the hand’. This goes back via Italian racchetta to Arabic rāhat, a variant of rāha ‘palm of the hand’. The origins of racket ‘noise’ are not known, although the probability is that it started life as a verbal imitation of an uproar.

racket (n.1)

"loud noise," 1560s, perhaps imitative. Klein compares Gaelic racaid "noise." Meaning "dishonest activity" (1785) is perhaps from racquet, via notion of "game," reinforced by rack-rent "extortionate rent" (1590s), from rack (n.1). But it might as well be an extended sense of "loud noise" by way of "noise or disturbance made to distract a pick-pocket's victim."

racket (n.2)

"handled paddle or netted bat used in tennis, etc.;" see racquet.

中文词源

racket：喧嚷（声），敲诈；球拍

作“吵闹声”解的racket是16世纪进入英语的，原来很可能是个象声词，模仿骰子的碰击声构成的，就如crack，bang等词。昔日英国扒手在扒窃时往往在街上制造骚动，以转移被扒者的注意力。为此1697年英国通过一项法令，禁止在城市街道投掷爆竹及其他足以引起骚动之物。扒手的这一惯用手法使racket 一词从原义引申出“诡计”、“诈骗”、“敲诈”、“骗局”等义，最初用于英国俚语。这些词义以后渐被废弃，racket也一度消声匿迹，直至美国禁酒时期(1919 -1933)才又和其派生词racketeer（诈骗者），racketeering（敲诈勒索）二词一起在美国英语露面。1928年racketeering 一词对英国读者如此陌生，以致《每日快报》（Daily Express）不得不对此作了如下注释；“Racketeering is the new word that has been coined in America to describe the big business of organized crime.”另有一种关于racket词源的说法，认为racket乃中世纪一种骰子游戏。

　　作“（网球等的）球拍”一义解的racket也是16世纪进入英语的，但它出自另一完全不同的词源。它借自法语raquette，源于阿拉伯语raha(t)‘palm of the hand’（手掌），因此也可拼作racquet。

该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：racket 词源，racket 含义。

racket： 吵闹，喧哗，诈骗

拟声词，模仿叽叽喳喳的声音，并由此引申词义混水摸鱼，放烟雾弹，诈骗等。