馬車馬
Japanese
[edit]| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 馬 | 車 | 馬 |
| ば Grade: 2 |
しゃ Grade: 1 |
うま Grade: 2 |
| kan'on | on'yomi | kun'yomi |
Etymology
[edit]Compound of 馬車 (basha, “horse-drawn carriage”) + 馬 (uma, “horse”).[1][2][3][4]
First attested in a text from 1898.[1]
The figurative sense developed from the way that carriage horses have blinkers, so all they see is what is in front of them.[1][2][3][4]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- [from 1898] (literal) a carriage horse
- [from 1900] (figurative) a person absorbed in work and blind to all else
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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 (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth 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
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