弁柄

Japanese

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弁柄

Alternative spelling
紅殻

Borrowing of Dutch Bengala (“Bengal”),^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] or of Portuguese Bengala (“Bengal”),^[5] as both the cloth and the red iron oxide were imported from Bengal in the Edo period.^[5]^[6]

Doublet of ベンガル (Bengaru, “Bengal”). The kanji spelling is an example of phonetic ateji (当て字).

First cited to a text from 1693.^[5]

弁(べん)柄(がら) or 弁柄(ベンガラ) • (bengara)

[from 1825] red iron oxide
[from 1693] a kind of cloth first imported from Bengal during the Edo period, made using silk for the warp threads and cotton for the weft
Synonym: 弁柄縞 (bengara-jima)

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ “べんがら”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984