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Japanese
Etymology 1
Analyzed by some references as an alternative form[1] or older form[2] of 群れ (mure, “a group, a gathering”), itself traceable to classical verb 群る (muru, “to gather, to group together”), modern form 群れる (mureru).
First cited in the Kojiki of 712.
Pronunciation
Noun
むら • (mura)
- 群, 叢, 簇: gathering, grouping
Affix
むら • (mura)
- 群, 叢, 簇: gathering, grouping
Usage notes
Often found as a compounding element, as either prefix as in Old Japanese 群山 (murayama, “mountain range, group of mountains”) or suffix as in Old Japanese 家群 (ipemura, “group of houses, settlement, village”).
Etymology 2
Alternative spellings
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村 𨛗 (rare)
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From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *mura.
Either formed from the nominalization of 群れる (mureru, “to gather”), or from Old Korean.[3][4] In Old Korean toponyms, this appears with the phonetic spelling 牟羅 (*mura). Compare Korean 무리 (muri, “group, crowd”), also possibly cognate with 群れる (mureru, “to gather”).
Noun
むら • (mura)
- 村, 𨛗: village (a rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town)
2015 September 19, “竜角の狩猟者”, in EXTRA PACK 2015, Konami:
- 疫病に苦しむ故郷の村を救うため、霊薬の原料となるドラゴンの角を乱獲する女戦士。その村はすでに、棲み処を追われたドラゴンたちによって踏み荒らされ、焼き尽くされてしまった事を、彼女はまだ知らない・・・。
- Ekibyō ni kurushimu kokyō no mura o sukū tame, reiyaku no genryō to naru doragon no tsuno o rankakusuru onnasenshi. Sono mura wa sude ni, sumika o owareta doragon-tachi ni yotte fumiarasare, yakitsukusarete shimatta koto o, kanojo wa mada shiranai .
- A female warrior who was on the hunt for dragon horns, to make a medicine for her home village, which was suffering from a plague. Unbeknownst to her, those displaced dragons went on to lay waste and burn down her village….
Synonyms
- (village; historical, Korea): 村 (suki)
See also
Etymology 3
Ultimate derivation unknown. Perhaps sound-symbolic.
First cited to a text from 1275.[5]
Pronunciation
Noun
むら or ムラ • (mura)
- 斑: a design like marble or spots
- (by extension) having variation or fluctuation
- むらがある
- mura ga aru
- uneven, variable
- むらがない
- mura ga nai
- even, uniform
- 回転むら
- kaiten mura
- unsteady rotation
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
- ^ “村”, in 日本国語大辞典 (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
- ^ “村”, in デジタル大辞泉 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- ^ “斑”, in 日本国語大辞典 (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN