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カイロ

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See also: かいろ

Japanese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English Cairo.

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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カイロ • (Kairo) 

  1. Cairo (the capital of Egypt)
  2. Cairo (a governorate of Egypt)

Etymology 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of カイロ – see the following entry.
【懐炉かいろ】
[noun] bosom-warmer; body-warmer
[noun] (by extension) handwarmer
(This term, カイロ (kairo), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)

References

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  1. ^ 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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