化け物

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
化 物
ば
Grade: 3 		もの
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
化物
化けもの

Alternative forms

  • (someone of prodigious ability): (informal) ばけもん (bakemon)

Etymology

Compound of 化け (bake, “transforming”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 化ける bakeru, “take a different form, disguise oneself”) +‎ 物 (mono, “thing”).

Pronunciation

Noun

化(ば)け物(もの) • (bakemono) 

  1. a monster, a ghost, a phantom
    化(ば)け物(もの)のような茄子(なす)
    bakemono no yō na nasu
    a monstrous eggplant, a monster of an eggplant
    • 1999 March 27, “ラーバス [Larvas]”, in Vol.2, Konami:
      素(す)早(ばや)く動(うご)く鳥(とり)のばけもの。細(ほそ)く長(なが)い腕(うで)をからませ絞(し)めあげる。
      Subayaku ugoku tori no bakemono. Hosoku nagai ude o karamase shimeageru.
      A nimble avian monster who will strangle you with his long thin arms.
  2. someone of prodigious ability; monster; beast
    トランプにかけては化(ば)け物(もの)だ。
    Toranpu ni kakete wa bakemono da.
    He's a monster / a whiz at cards.

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References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  • 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN
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