• n. 典當；抵押物；兵，卒；人質
• vt. 當掉；以……擔保

來自古法語peon,兵，卒，來自拉丁語pedonem,步兵，來自拉丁語pedis,腳，來自PIE*ped,腳，詞源同foot,biped.最初用于國際象棋卒，后引申詞義走卒。

來自古法語pan,承認，擔保，可能來自該詞的另一個詞義pan,布，一塊布，來自拉丁語pannum, 一塊布，衣服，詞源同pane,panel.其原義可能為以衣服作為質押或在布上寫上契約。

pawn

pawn: English has two words pawn. The older, ‘chess piece’ [14], means etymologically ‘footsoldier’. It comes via Anglo-Norman poun from medieval Latin pedō ‘infantryman’, a derivative of Latin pēs ‘foot’ (to which English foot is related). The foot-soldier being the lowest of the low in the army, the term came to be applied to the ‘chess piece of lowest rank’. (English gets pioneer from a derivative of paon, the Old French version of poun.) Pawn ‘pledge as security for a loan’ [15] comes via Old French pan ‘security, pledge’ from a prehistoric West Germanic *panda (source of modern German pfand ‘pledge, security, pawn’). Penny may go back to the same source.
=> foot, pedal, pioneer; penny

pawn (n.1)

"something left as security," late 15c. (mid-12c. as Anglo-Latin pandum), from Old French pan, pant "pledge, security," also "booty, plunder," perhaps from Frankish or some other Germanic source (compare Old High German pfant, German Pfand, Middle Dutch pant, Old Frisian pand "pledge"), from West Germanic *panda, of unknown origin.

The Old French word is identical to pan "cloth, piece of cloth," from Latin pannum (nominative pannus) "cloth, piece of cloth, garment" and Klein's sources feel this is the source of both the Old French and West Germanic words (perhaps on the notion of cloth used as a medium of exchange).

pawn (n.2)

lowly chess piece, late 14c., from Anglo-French poun, Old French peon, earlier pehon, from Medieval Latin pedonem "foot soldier," from Late Latin pedonem (nominative pedo) "one going on foot," from Latin pes (genitive pedis) "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)). The chess sense was in Old French by 13c. Figurative use, of persons, is from 1580s.

pawn (v.)

"to give (something) as security in exchange for," 1560s, from pawn (n.1). Related: Pawned; pawning.

1. He had no way to redeem his furniture out of pawn.

他無法贖回典當的家具.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

2. A good pawn never shamed his master.

典當好,面子保.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. She has redeemed her jewellery from pawn.

她從當鋪贖回了珠寶.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. It looks as though he is being used as a political pawn by the President.

看起來他似乎被總統當作了政治卒子。

來自柯林斯例句

5. " Those must be pawn shops on fire,'said Mrs. Chang.

“ 一定是當鋪起火.

來自漢英文學 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）