カルタ

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Japanese

Alternative spellings
歌留多
加留多
骨牌

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese carta, ultimately cognate with カード (kādo, “card”) and カルテ (karute, “patient card”).

Pronunciation

Noun

花札のカルタ: a hanafuda card

カルタ or かるた • (karuta) 

  1. (card games) playing cards, especially Japanese traditional playing cards
    Hyponyms: 伊呂波ガルタ (iroha-garuta), 歌ガルタ (uta-garuta), 花札 (hanafuda), トランプ (toranpu), 取札 (torifuda)
  2. any of several games played with such cards
    Hyponyms: 歌ガルタ (uta-garuta), こいこい (koi-koi), おいちょかぶ (oicho-kabu)
    カルタ取(と)りをする。
    Karuta-tori o suru.
    We play cards.

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References

  1. ^ “かるた”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. ^ “歌留多”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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