むえんぼとけ

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Japanese

Alternative spelling
無縁仏

Etymology

From 無縁(むえん) (muen) + (ほとけ) (hotoke). The hotoke changes to botoke as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

むえんぼとけ (muenbotokeむえんぼとけ (muenbotoke)?

  1. decedent without carers

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN