Daijirin
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Japanese 大辞林 (Daijirin, literally “Great Forest of Words”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?) (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪ.d͡ʒiː.ɹɪn/
- (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?) (US) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪ.d͡ʒi.ɹɪn/
- Hyphenation: Dai‧ji‧ren
Proper noun
[edit]Daijirin or the Daijirin
- A comprehensive single-volume Japanese dictionary edited by Akira Matsumura and first published in 1988 by Sanseidō.
- 2000 January 17, Gerald Figal, Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society), Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 223:
- Although synonyms, tasogare and kawatare, the Daijirin informs us, took up a popular pseudodivision of labor: tasogare came to refer to the evening phenomenon and kawatare came to refer to its morning counterpart.
- 2004 October 28, Janet S. Shibamoto Smith, Shigeko Okamoto, Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People (Studies in Language and Gender), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 175:
- Relatively recent dictionaries such as Sanseedoo gendai kokugo jiten (first published in 1988), Daijirin (1988), and Daijisen (1995) have included usage labels and supplemental notes from their first editions. […] Daijirin’s notes concerning usage were also eliminated from its second edition, demonstrating that some revisions represent changes for the worse.
- 2005 November 24, Keith Brown, Ronald E. Asher, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 9676:
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Daijirin.
See also
[edit]Japanese
[edit]Romanization
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