梅干し

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梅干し (umeboshi): a few umeboshi, pickled Japanese plums.
Kanji in this term
梅 干
うめ
Grade: 4 		ほ > ぼ
Grade: 6
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
梅干し (kyūjitai)
梅干

Etymology

Compound of 梅 (ume, “plum”) +‎ 干し (hoshi, “drying, dried”), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 干す (hosu, “to dry”).[1][2] The hoshi changes to boshi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

梅(うめ)干(ぼ)し • (umeboshi) 

  1. umeboshi: salt-dried or pickled Japanese ume (a kind of plum); very sour, and often used as a condiment in Japanese cooking
  2. (slang) an elderly person (from the similarity of wrinkled skin to a wrinkled umeboshi; compare usage of English prune)
  3. (medicine) an unripe Japanese ume that has been smoked over a fire until black, used in traditional medicines and as a pigment

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  • English: mebos, umeboshi
  • Dutch: mebos

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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