カピタン

カピタン

Japanese

Alternative forms

• 甲比丹
• カピテン (kapiten)

Etymology

From Portuguese capitão.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) カ​ピタン [káꜜpìtàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠pʲitã̠ɴ]

Noun

カピタン • (kapitan) 

1. a captain of a foreign ship from Europe to Japan in the Edo period
2. VOC Opperhoofden in Japan; a chief trader of the Dutch East India Company during the Edo Period
3. a kind of woven in stripes from #1

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN