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Chinese
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to break; to split; broken to break; to split; broken; damaged; worn out
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house; room
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simp. and trad.
(破屋)
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破
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屋
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Pronunciation
Noun
破屋
- dilapidated house; ramshackle house
Japanese
Etymology 1
Probably ultimately from Middle Chinese 破屋 (MC phaH 'uwk, literally “broken down, worn out + house”).
First appears in the mid-1300s.
Pronunciation
Noun
破屋 • (haoku) ←はをく (fawoku)?
- a tumbledown, ramshackle house, especially one that has been abandoned
- Synonyms: (“abandoned house”) 廃屋 (haioku), (“abandoned house”) 廃家 (haika)
Etymology 2
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破れ屋 (less common)
破れ家 (less common)
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Compound of 破れ (yabure, “breaking down, falling apart”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 破れる (yabureru, “to break down, to fall apart”)) + 屋 (ya, “house, building”).
First appears in the late 1100s.
This reading may be falling into disuse. Not listed in some dictionaries.
Pronunciation
Noun
破屋 • (yabureya)
- a tumbledown, squalid house
- Synonym: (“dilapidated house, shack, hut”; “home”, as a humble reference to one's own dwelling) 荒屋 (abaraya)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN