オブラート
Japanese
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オブラート (oburāto): two pieces of 兵六餅 (Hyōroku mochi), a kind of sweet made from mochi rice, wrapped in oblaat.
Etymology
Borrowed from either Dutch oblaat[1][2][3] or German Oblate.[3][4][5]
Apparently first imported and used in Japan in the early 1900s.
Pronunciation
- (Tokyo) オブラート [òbúráꜜàtò] (Nakadaka – [3])[1][4][2]
- IPA(key): [o̞bɯ̟ᵝɾa̠ːto̞]
Noun
オブラート • (oburāto)
- oblaat, oblate: a thin wrapper made of edible starch, used to wrap some candies and some powdered medicines
Derived terms
- オブラートに包む (oburāto ni tsutsumu)
References
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
- 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan