梅干し
Appearance
Japanese
[edit]Kanji in this term | |
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梅 | 干 |
うめ Grade: 4 |
ほ > ぼ Grade: 6 |
kun'yomi |
Alternative spellings |
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梅干し (kyūjitai) 梅干 |
Etymology
[edit]Compound of 梅 (ume, “plum”) + 干し (hoshi, “drying, dried”), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 干す (hosu, “to dry”).[1][2] The hoshi changes to boshi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- umeboshi: salt-dried or pickled Japanese ume (a kind of plum); very sour, and often used as a condiment in Japanese cooking
- (slang) an elderly person (from the similarity of wrinkled skin to a wrinkled umeboshi; compare usage of English prune)
- (medicine) an unripe Japanese ume that has been smoked over a fire until black, used in traditional medicines and as a pigment
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Derived terms
- 梅干し和え (umeboshi ae), 梅干和 (umeboshi ae): a dressing or sauce for fish or vegetables made of umeboshi mixed with sugar or other sweetener
- 梅干し飴 (umeboshi ame), 梅干飴 (umeboshi ame): "umeboshi candy": a sweet resembling an umeboshi in shape and/or size and/or flavor
- 梅干し磯巾着 (umeboshi iso ginchaku), 梅干磯巾着 (umeboshi iso ginchaku): Actiniidae, a family of sea anemone
- 梅干しの木 (umeboshi no ki), 梅干の木 (umeboshi no ki): alternate term for 権萃 (gonzui) or 三つ葉空木 (mitsuba utsugi), Staphylea bumalda, a kind of bladdernut tree
- 梅干し婆 (umeboshi baba), 梅干婆 (umeboshi baba): (derogatory) a wrinkly elderly woman
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third 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
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 梅 read as うめ
- Japanese terms spelled with 干 read as ほ
- Japanese terms with rendaku
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with sixth grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 2 kanji
- Japanese slang
- ja:Medicine
- ja:Salted and pickled foods