温める

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Japanese

See also 温まる

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
あたた
Grade: 3
Alternative spelling
溫める (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

  • Homophones: 暖める : (v.tr) to warm, to heat - (objective is person(s), or room)
  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「温める
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
温める たため
Imperative (命令形) 温めろ たため
Key constructions
Passive 温められる たためられ
Causative 温めさせる たためさせ
Potential 温められる たためられ
Volitional 温めよう たためよ
Negative 温めない たためない
Negative perfective 温めなかった たためなかった
Formal 温めます たためま
Perfective 温めた たためた
Conjunctive 温めて たためて
Hypothetical conditional 温めれば たためれば

Verb

(あたた)める (atatamerutransitive ichidan (stem (あたた) (atatame), past (あたた)めた (atatameta))

Japanese verb pair
active (あたた)める
mediopassive (あたた)まる
  1. to warm; to heat
  2. to nurse (a plan or idea); to keep an idea to oneself while considering it
    • 2001, 中堀浩和 Nakabori Hirokazu, ボードレール 魂の原風景, Baudelaire: The original scenery of the spirit, page 216:
      しかし(かれ)はそれよりかなり(まえ)から散文詩(さんぶんし)という(あたら)しいジャンルを(こころ)(なか)(あたた)実作(じっさく)していたようである。
      Shikashi kare wa sore yori kanari mae kara sanbunshi to iu atarashii janru o kokoro no naka de atatame, jissaku shite ita yō de aru.
      However, it seems that Baudelaire since much earlier had been nursing in his heart a plan for the new genre called prose poetry and was working to realize it.
  3. to renew (a relationship)
  4. to take secretly; to swipe
Conjugation
Antonyms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
ぬく
Grade: 3
Alternative spelling
溫める (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

Verb

(ぬく)める (nukumerutransitive ichidan (stem (ぬく) (nukume), past (ぬく)めた (nukumeta))

Japanese verb pair
active (ぬく)める
mediopassive (ぬく)まる
Japanese verb pair
active (ぬく)める
mediopassive (ぬく)もる
  1. to warm; to heat
    たき()でからだを(ぬく)める
    takibi de karada o nukumeru
    to warm the body with a bonfire
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
ぬる
Grade: 3
Alternative spelling
溫める (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

Verb

(ぬる)める (nurumerutransitive ichidan (stem (ぬる) (nurume), past (ぬる)めた (nurumeta))

  1. to cool something hot to a warm temperature
    (みず)(くわ)えて(ぬる)める
    mizu o kuwaete nurumeru
    to cool hot water down by adding cold water
Conjugation

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
あった
Grade: 3
Alternative spelling
溫める (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

Verb

(あった)める (attamerutransitive ichidan (stem (あった) (attame), past (あった)めた (attameta))

Japanese verb pair
active (あった)める
mediopassive (あった)まる
  1. Alternative form of 温める (atatameru)
Conjugation

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN