益荒男

Japanese

From Old Japanese, first attested in the Kojiki (712 CE). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Compound of 益荒(ますら) (masura, “manliness”) + 男(お) (o, “man”).

益(ます)荒(ら)男(お) • (masurao) ^{←ますらを (masurawo)^?}

a strong, brave man
Synonyms: 益荒男子 (ますらおのこ, masura onoko), 益荒猛男 (ますらたけお, masuratakeo)

Antonym: 手弱女 (たおやめ, taoyame)
a warrior, soldier
Synonyms: 武人 (bujin), 武士 (mononofu)
an official of the ancient Japanese court
a hunter
Synonyms: 狩人 (かりうど, kariudo, かりゅうど, karyūdo), 猟師 (りょうし, ryōshi)
- 1603, Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Nippo Jisho) [Vocabulary of the Language of Japan] (in Portuguese), Nagasaki, page 387:
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  Masurauo. マスラヲ (丈夫) 詩歌語. すなわち, Yamano reôxi. (山の猟師) 山びと, あるいは, 猟人.

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ Doi, Tadao (1603–1604) Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1980, →ISBN.