人はパンのみにて生くる者に非ず

Japanese

Kanji in this term
人	生	者	非
ひと Grade: 1	い Grade: 1	もの Grade: 3	あら Grade: 5
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
人はパンのみにて生くる者に非ず (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From a translation of the New Testament, Gospel of Matthew 4:4, "man shall not live on bread alone".^[1]

Phrase consisting of 人 (hito, “person; man, mankind, humanity”) + は (wa, topic particle) + パン (pan, “bread”) + のみ (nomi, “only”) + にて (ni te, copular conjunction, "on, by means of") + 生くる (ikuru, “living, that lives”), classical attributive of 生く (iku, “to live, to be alive”) + 者 (mono, “person; being”) + に (ni, copular particle) + あらず (arazu, “is not”, classical copula あり (ari) in the negative conjugation).

The Japanese literally parses out to "man is not a being that lives only on bread".

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [çito̞ β̞a̠ pa̠n no̞mʲi ɲ̟i te̞ ikɯ̟ɾɯ̟ mo̞no̞ ɲ̟i a̠ɾa̠zɨ]

Proverb

人(ひと)はパンのみにて生(い)くる者(もの)に非(あら)ず • (hito wa pan nomi ni te ikuru mono ni arazu)

man shall not live by bread alone

References

^ “人はパンのみにて生くる者に非ず”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months

[DDJS-1] “人はパンのみにて生くる者に非ず”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months

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