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Japanese
Etymology 1
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| 黒 |
⟨kuro1⟩ → /kuro/
From Old Japanese (see 黒い (kuroi) for more); in turn, from Proto-Japonic *kuro.
Via root morpheme *kur, cognates include:
- 涅 (kuri, “black mud from the bed of a body of water”)
- 暗 (kura, “darkness; deception”), 蔵, 倉, 庫 (kura, “ storehouse”), and 暗い (kurai, “dark”)
- classical verb 暮る (kuru), modern 暮れる (kureru, “to become dark; to near the end [of a day, of a year, of a life”), and 暗れる, 眩れる (kureru, “to become depressed, to become dreary of mood”)
Possibly also cognate with Ainu kur (“shadow”) and Korean 구름 (gureum, “cloud”); compare also Japanese 雲 (kumo, “cloud”), Korean 검— (geom-, “black”), and Ainu kunne (“black; dark”).
Pronunciation
Noun
- black (color)
- Antonym: 白 (shiro)
- (go) a black stone; the person who plays black stones
- Synonym: 先手 (sente)
- a 女房詞 (nyōbō kotoba, “woman's word”) for 鍋 (nabe, “pot, pan”) or 釜 (kama, “pot, kettle”)
- (accounting) short for 黒字 (kuroji): black as an accounting term, indicating a profit
- (euphemistic) short for 黒幕 (kuromaku): a black curtain (someone influencing or controlling matters from behind the scenes)
- guilt; the guilty one, the guilty party
- (slang) anarchy as a belief system or philosophy
- Synonym: 無政府主義 (museifu shugi)
- (slang) an anarchist
- Synonym: 無政府主義者 (museifu shugi-sha)
Derived terms
- 黒黒, 黒々 (kuroguro)
- 黒い (kuroi, “black”, adjective)
- 黒み (kuromi, “blackness, black tinge”)
- 黒め (kurome)
- 黒和え, 黒韲え (kuro-ae)
- 玄人 (kurōto)
- 黒柏 (kuro kashiwa), 黒柏鶏 (kuro kashiwa-kei)
- 黒金, 鉄 (kurogane, “iron”)
- 黒髪 (kurokami)
- 黒川, 黒河 (kurokawa)
- 黒子, 黒衣 (kurogo)
- 黒字 (kuroji)
- 黒田 (kurota)
- 黒田 (Kuroda)
- 黒垂 (kurotare)
- 黒鶫 (kurotsugumi)
- 黒貂 (kuroten)
- 黒塗, 黒塗り (kuro-nuri)
- 黒猫 (kuroneko, “black cat”)
- 黒檜 (kurobi), 黒檜 (kurobe)
- 黒っぽい (kuroppoi, “blackish, dark”)
- 黒豚 (kurobuta, “Berkshire pig”)
- 黒幕 (kuromaku)
- 黒丸, 黒円 (kuromaru)
- 黒布, 黒海布, 黒菜 (kurome)
- 黒目, 黒眼 (kurome)
- 黒焼, 黒焼き (kuroyaki)
- 黒枠, 黒框 (kurowaku)
- 黒ん坊 (kuronbō): a deeply tanned person; (derogatory) a black person; a stagehand wearing black or dark clothing; a monk wearing black clothing; rotten black seeds, particularly grain that has rotted on the stalk
- 白黒 (shirakura, “this and that, so-and-so, such-and-such: unspecified items brought up for criticism”)
- 白黒 (shirokuro, “black and white; monochrome; panic or startled state; confusion; sex show”)
- 中黒 (nakaguro)
- 黒子 (hahakuso), 黒子 (hokuro, “mole”)
- 髭黒 (higekuro)
Related terms
Related terms
- 盲 (mekura, “blindness”)
- 涅 (kuri, “black mud from the bed of a body of water”)
- 呉 (kure): (obsolete) China (from sense of "where the sun sets")
- 暗 (kura, “darkness; deception, fraud”)
- 暗がり (kuragari): darkness
- 蔵, 倉, 庫 (kura, “(dark) storehouse”)
- 暗い (kurai, “dark”)
- 暮れる (kureru, “to become dark; to near the end (of a day, of a year, of a life)”)
- 暗れる, 眩れる (kureru, “to become depressed, to become dreary of mood”)
- 晦ます (kuramasu, “to conceal oneself, to abscond; to deceive, to fool”)
- 冥き途 (kurakimichi, “underworld, realm of the dead”)
- 暮れ六つ (kuremutsu): Edo-period term for a time of day, roughly 6 pm
- 暮れ方 (kuregata, “evening, sunset, nightfall”)
- 暮れ泥む (kurenazumu, “to grow dark slowly”)
See also
| 白 (shiro) | 灰色 (haiiro), 鼠色 (nezumiiro) (dated) |
黒 (kuro) |
| 赤 (aka); 深紅 (shinku), クリムゾン (kurimuzon), 紅色 (beniiro), 紅色 (kurenaiiro), 茜色 (akaneiro) |
橙色 (daidaiiro), オレンジ (orenji); 茶色 (chairo), 褐色 (kasshoku) |
黄色 (kiiro); クリーム色 (kurīmuiro) |
| 黄緑 (kimidori) | 緑 (midori), 青 (ao) (dated) |
若緑 (wakamidori) |
| 水色 (mizuiro), シアン (shian); 鴨の羽色 (kamo no hane iro) |
空色 (sorairo), 縹 (hanada); 青 (ao) |
紺藍 (kon'ai); 紺 (kon) |
| 菫色 (sumireiro); 藍色 (aiiro), インジゴ (injigo) |
赤紫 (akamurasaki), マゼンタ (mazenta); 紫 (murasaki) |
桃色 (momoiro), ピンク (pinku) |
Etymology 2
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| 畔 畦 壠 (uncommon) |
First attested in a text from 810, but only where 畦 is glossed as クロ. The first actual phonetic attestation is in the Wamyō Ruijushō (934), as 久路.
Pronunciation
- (Kagoshima) くろ (type B)
- Historical evolution of the Kyoto pitch accent
- (the Heian period) LH
Noun
Etymology 3
Attested in the Butsurui Shōko (1775).
Unknown. Possibly a dialectal form of 蟋蟀 (kōrogi, “cricket”), but no sources support this.
Noun
Etymology 4
Unknown. Possibly contractions of different words.
Noun
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 “くろ 【畔・畦・壠】
”, in 日本国語大辞典 (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2000-2002, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Hirayama, Teruo, editor (1960), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, “Nationwide Accent Dictionary”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN
