トランス

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English trance.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

トランス • (toransu) 

  1. a trance
  2. (music) trance

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English transformer, then shortened.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

Noun

トランス • (toransu) 

  1. (electronics) a transformer for changing voltage in an electrical current
Synonyms

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English trans-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [to̞ɾã̠ɰ̃sɨᵝ]

Prefix

トランス • (toransu-) 

  1. (only in compounds) trans-
Usage notes

This prefix is only seldom used except where it appears as part of loan words that include the prefix trans- in the source language. For coinages in Japanese, Japanese writers are much more likely to use a native Japanese construction or phrase instead of this still-very-foreign loanword.

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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