メス

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

メス (刃物)

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Scalpel

From Dutch mes (“knife”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) メス (Atamadaka – )^[2]
IPA^(key):

Noun

メス • (mesu)

(medicine) scalpel, lancet, medical knife

Idioms

Idioms

メスを入(い)れる (mesu o ireru): to make an incision, as at the start of a surgical operation; to take a decisive action to resolve the root cause of an issue

Etymology 2

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

メス (フランス)

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Metz

From French Metz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):

Proper noun

メス • (Mesu)

Metz (a city in Lorraine, northeastern France)

Synonyms

メッツ (Mettsu) (from the German pronunciation)

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of メス – see the following entry.

【雌めす】S

a female (plant or animal)

(vulgar) a female person; bitch

an internal socket

Alternative spelling
牝

(This term, メス (mesu), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)

References

^ 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, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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