カーペット

カーペット · kaapetto · JLPT N1 · noun

rug

カーペット — rug

Sounds like car + pet: a pet for your car's floor is a carpet

Katakana カーペット is the English word carpet, pronounced kaa-pet-to. The English word is traced to Latin carpere, meaning to pluck, because early carpets were made from plucked wool.

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