扁桃
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Chinese[edit]
flat; tablet; inscription; small boat |
peach | ||
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simp. and trad. (扁桃) |
扁 | 桃 | |
variant forms | 偏桃 匾桃 |
Etymology[edit]
A Central Asian import during the Medieval period. Perhaps a phono-semantic matching of Persian بادام (bâdâm, “almond”) (as per Cihai), semantically construed as the “flat peach”.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
扁桃
- almond (the plant Prunus dulcis or its fruit)
- flat peach
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Japanese[edit]
Kanji in this term | |
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扁 | 桃 |
へん Hyōgaiji |
とう Grade: S |
on’yomi |
Etymology[edit]
/pentau/ → /fentau/ → /hentau/ → /hentɔː/ → /hentoː/
From Middle Chinese compound 扁桃 (penX daw, literally “flat, thin + peach”), from the way the almond fruit resembles a flat, thin peach.
The modern sense of tonsil came about by contraction from the full term 扁桃腺 (hentōsen, literally “almond gland”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
扁桃 (hiragana へんとう, katakana ヘントウ, rōmaji hentō, historical hiragana へんたう)
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
- 苦扁桃 (kuhentō): bitter almond
- 苦扁桃油 (kuhentōyu): bitter almond oil
- 苦扁桃水 (kuhentōsui): bitter almond oil dissolved in water
- 扁桃炎 (hentōen): tonsillitis
- 扁桃核 (hentōkaku): amygdala
- 扁桃腺 (hentōsen): tonsil
- 扁桃腺炎 (hentōsen'en): tonsillitis
- 扁桃腺切除 (hentōsen setsujo): tonsillectomy
- 扁桃肥大 (hentō hidai): enlarged tonsils, tonsillar hypertrophy
- 扁桃体 (hentōtai): amygdala
- 扁桃油 (hentōyu): almond oil
References[edit]
- 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
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