ポピー
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Japanese
Etymology
Borrowed from English poppy.[1][2][3][4]
Pronunciation
Noun
Usage notes
This is a foreign loan word seldom used in Japanese. The more common words for this are the native Japanese terms ケシ (keshi) or ヒナゲシ (hinageshi), generally spelled in katakana but occasionally found in the kanji spellings 芥子 or 雛芥子.
References
- ^ “ポピー”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN