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Japanese
Etymology
Gikun word derived by applying Chinese-derived spelling 工 (“work”), a Chinese pictograph of a carpenter's tool symbolizing work, to native Japanese word わざ (waza, “a work of great significance or intent”).
Noun
工[1] (waza) → 業 (waza)
- work
Quotations
- ^ OT, page 2:
- 第七日に神其造りたる工を竣たまへり即ち其造りたる工を竣て七日に安息たまへり
- Nanuka me ni Kami sono tsukuritaru waza wo oe tamaeri sunawachi sono tsukuritaru waza wo oete nanuka ni yasumi tamaeri
- And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.