大国主
Japanese
[edit]| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 大 | 国 | 主 |
| おお Grade: 1 |
くに Grade: 2 |
ぬし Grade: 3 |
| kun'yomi | ||
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 大國主 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology
[edit]Compound of 大 (ō, “great, grand”) + 国 (kuni, “country, nation”) + 主 (nushi, “lord; spirit or kami in charge of something”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]大国主 • (Ōkuninushi) ←おほくにぬし (Ofokuninusi)?
- (Shinto, mythology, Japanese mythology) a kami of nation-building, agriculture, medicine, and protective magic
Usage notes
[edit]Often found with the epithet suffixes 神 (kami, “kami, spirit, god”) or 命 (mikoto, “greatness, augustness, reverence, exaltedness”)
- 大国主神/命
- Ōkuninushi no Kami / Mikoto
- Ōkuninushi the Kami / the Great
See also
[edit]Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 大 read as おお
- Japanese terms spelled with 国 read as くに
- Japanese terms spelled with 主 read as ぬし
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese proper nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with third grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 3 kanji
- ja:Shinto
- ja:Mythology
- ja:Japanese deities
- Japanese terms with usage examples