ステーション
Japanese
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English station.[1][2][3][4]
First attested in a text from 1870.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Tokyo) ステーション [s
ùtéꜜèshòǹ] (Nakadaka – [2])[3][4][5] - (Tokyo) ステーション [s
ùtééshóń] (Heiban – [0])[4] - IPA(key): [sɨ̥te̞ːɕõ̞ɴ]
Noun
[edit]- a station (a place where a vehicle may stop; a facility or place where a particular operation is carried out)
- Synonym: (place where a vehicle may stop) 駅 (eki)
- 2002 April 27, Kozue Amano, “Navigation06 始めてのお客様 [Navigation 06: My First Customer]”, in AQUA [AQUA], volume 2 (fiction), Tokyo: Enix, →ISBN, page 20:
- おいもみ子 浮き島への空中ロープウェイ駅まで頼む
- Oi Momiko Ukijima e no kūchū rōpuwei sutēshon made tanomu
- Hey Sidie, take me to the aerial ropeway station to the Floating Islands.
- …Momiko⁉
- Sidie!?
- おいもみ子 浮き島への空中ロープウェイ駅まで頼む
Derived terms
[edit]- 宇宙ステーション (uchū sutēshon, “a space station”)
- エコステーション (eko sutēshon, “a gas station with equipment to support eco-friendly electric vehicles”)
- キーステーション (kī sutēshon, “a key broadcasting station that provides programming to other affiliate stations in the network”)
Related terms
[edit]- ナースステーション (nāsu sutēshon, “a nurse station in a hospital or clinic”)
- ワークステーション (wākusutēshon, “a workstation”)
References
[edit]- ↑ 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
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN