Jump to content

玉の緖

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also: 玉の緒

Japanese

[edit]
Kanji in this term
たま
Grade: 1

Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 玉の緖 – see the following entry.
たま
[noun] a beaded string, especially a jewelled necklace
[noun] (idiomatic, by extension of “connecting more beads into a string”) the shortness in space of something
[noun] (figurative) the (thread of) life, one’s own existence
[noun] (historical) during the Edo period, Buddhist mala beads used in Buddha worship
[noun] Synonym of 見せばや (misebaya): Hylotelephium sieboldii, a species of stonecrop
(This term, 玉の緖, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Old Japanese

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Literally “thread of jewels” or “cord of beads”, likely in reference as jewellery.

Noun

[edit]

(tama no2 wo) (kana たまのを)

  1. a beaded string, jewelled thread
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 20, poem 4493:
      , text here
      始春波都禰家布多麻婆波伎手爾等流可良爾由良久多麻能乎
      patuparu no2 patune no2 ke1pu no2 tamabapaki1 te ni to2ru kara ni yuraku tama no2 wo
      On the first spring on the first day of the Rat, I take with my hands today’s broom decketh with its trembly-resounding strings of jewels.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:玉の緖.

Derived terms

[edit]

Descendants

[edit]
  • Japanese: 玉の緒 (tama no o)

See also

[edit]