steppe
/stɛp/
- n.
- 大草原
中文释义来自 ECDICT
词源链
- uk
степ
派生
- 英语English
steppe
词源说明
From German Steppe or French steppe, in turn from Russian степь (stepʹ, “flat grassy plain”) or Ukrainian степ (step). There is no generally accepted earlier etymology, but there is a speculative Old East Slavic reconstruction *сътепь (sŭtepĭ, “trampled place, flat, bare”), related to топот (topot), топтать (toptatĭ).
释义
名词noun
- 1The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia. [from 1671]
- 2A vast, cold, dry, grassy plain.