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Japanese
| For pronunciation and definitions of むらさき – see the following entries.
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- the purple or red-root gromwell, Lithospermum erythrorhizon
- the root of the murasaki used as a natural dye
- Short for 紫色 (murasaki-iro): the color purple
- (colloquial, from its purplish color) Synonym of 醤油 (shōyu): soy sauce
- (colloquial) a woman
- (archaic women's speech) Synonym of 鰯 (iwashi): a sardine, especially the Japanese pilchard, Sardinops sagax
- (historical, from being allowed to wear purple clothing) Synonym of 検校 (kengyō): the highest ranked blind court official
- (historical, colloquial, from 江戸紫 (Edo murasaki, “royal purple”), where the dye is traditionally made in) Edo, the de facto capital of the Tokugawa shogunate
- (colloquial) Short for 紫式部 (Murasaki Shikibu): Heian-period novelist and lady-in-waiting
- (colloquial, by extension) Synonym of 源氏物語 (Genji Monogatari): The Tale of Genji
- a female given name
- a surname
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(This term, むらさき (murasaki), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as むらさき, see Category:Japanese kanji read as むらさき.)
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