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Japanese
Alternative spelling
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開けゴマ
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開けゴマ on Japanese Wikipedia
Etymology
From 開け (hirake, imperative form of 開く (hiraku, “to open”)) + 胡麻 (goma, “sesame”), calque of French sésame, ouvre-toi in Antoine Galland's version of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in One Thousand and One Nights, possibly based on an oral Arabic source.
Phrase
開け胡麻 or 開け胡麻 • (hirake goma)
- open sesame!