大納言
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Japanese
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 大 | 納 | 言 |
| だい Grade: 1 |
な Grade: 6 |
ごん Grade: 2 |
| goon | kan'yōon | goon |
From 大 (dai-, “big, great”) + 納言 (nagon, “counselor”, on-reading of monomōsu-tsukasa).
Pronunciation
Noun
- (politics, historical) a chief counselor in the 太政官 (Daijō-kan, “Great Council of State”, the highest government office under the 律令 (Ritsuryō) system)
- (politics, historical, obsolete) a government office in the 太政官 (Dajō-kan, “Great Council of State”, the highest governing body during the early Meiji period)
- (colloquial) Short for 大納言小豆 (dainagon azuki): a large, dark red bean cultivar
- a type of 小紋 (komon, “fine pattern”)
- Synonym: 加島屋小紋 (Kashima komon)
- a detailed 鮫小紋 (samekomon, literally “shark komon”) once used solely by the Kishū-Tokugawa family
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- 大納言小豆 (dainagon azuki)
- 池大納言 (Ike no Dainagon, courtesy name of Taira no Yorimori)
- 一の大納言 (ichi no dainagon)
- 尹大納言 (in-dainagon)
- 尹の大納言 (in no dainagon)
- 宇治大納言物語 (Uji Dainagon Monogatari)
- 大伴大納言 (Ōtomo no Dainagon)
- 数の外の大納言 (kazu no hoka no dainagon)
- 権大納言 (gon-dainagon)
- 権の大納言 (gon no dainagon)
- 四条大納言 (Shijō Dainagon, nickname of Fujiwara no Kintō)
- 駿河大納言 (Suruga Dainagon, nickname of Tokugawa Tadanaga)
- 伴大納言 (Ban Dainagon, nickname of Tomo no Yoshio)
Etymology 2
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 大 | 納 | 言 |
| おおい Grade: 1 |
ものもうすつかさ | |
| Grade: 6 | Grade: 2 | |
| kun'yomi | jukujikun | |
Possibly from Old Japanese.
From 大い (ōi, “senior, upper”) + 納言 (monomōsu-tsukasa, “counselor”).
Noun
大納言 • (ōi monomōsu-tsukasa) ←おほいものまうすつかさ (ofoimonomausutukasa)?
(alternative reading hiragana おおきものもうすつかさ, rōmaji ōki monomōsu-tsukasa, historical hiragana おほきものまうすつかさ)
- (politics, historical, archaic) a chief counselor in the 太政官 (Ōimatsurigoto no Tsukasa, “Great Council of State”, the highest government office under the 律令 (Ritsuryō) system)
- 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 5:
- 大納言 職員令云：大納言［於保伊毛乃萬宇須豆加佐］
- Chief counselor - according to the Shikiin-ryō: the chief counselor is ōi monomōsu-tsukasa
- (politics, historical, obsolete) a government office in the 太政官 (Ōimatsurigoto no Tsukasa, “Great Council of State”, the highest governing body during the early Meiji period)