化け物
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 化 | 物 |
| ば Grade: 3 |
もの Grade: 3 |
| kun’yomi | |
| Alternative spellings |
|---|
| 化物 化けもの |
Alternative forms[edit]
- (someone of prodigious ability): (informal) ばけもん (bakemon)
Etymology[edit]
Compound of 化け (bake, “transforming”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 化ける bakeru, “take a different form, disguise oneself”) + 物 (mono, “thing”).[1][2]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Tokyo) ばけもの [bàkémóꜜnò] (Nakadaka – [3])[3][2]
- (Tokyo) ばけもの [bàkémónóꜜ] (Odaka – [4])[2]
- IPA(key): [ba̠ke̞mo̞no̞]
Noun[edit]
- a monster, a ghost, a phantom
- 化け物のような茄子
- bakemono no yō na nasu
- a monstrous eggplant, a monster of an eggplant
- 1999 March 27, “ラーバス [Larvas]”, in Vol.2, Konami:
- 素早く動く鳥のばけもの。細く長い腕をからませ絞めあげる。
- Subayaku ugoku tori no bakemono. Hosoku nagai ude o karamase shimeageru.
- A nimble avian monster who will strangle you with his long thin arms.
- 素早く動く鳥のばけもの。細く長い腕をからませ絞めあげる。
- 化け物のような茄子
- someone of prodigious ability; monster; beast
- トランプにかけては化け物だ。
- Toranpu ni kakete wa bakemono da.
- He's a monster / a whiz at cards.
- トランプにかけては化け物だ。
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
- 化け物絵 (bakemono e): a picture of a ghost or monster
- 化け物屋敷 (bakemono yashiki): haunted house
- 化け物蝋燭 (bakemono rōsoku): a kind of shadow theater or play
References[edit]
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
- 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN
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