додзё

Russian

додзё

Etymology

Borrowed from English dojo, from Japanese 道場 (dōjō), from Middle Chinese 道場 (MC dawX drjang). Doublet of топчан (topčan, “trestle bed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dɐd͡zʲˈzʲɵ]

Noun

додзё • (dodzjó) n inan (indeclinable)

1. dojo (training facility, usually led by one or more sensei; a hall or room used for such training)

Further reading

• Kuznetsov, Sergey Alexandrovich (1998), “додзё”, in Большой толковый словарь русского языка [Great Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Norint, →ISBN