化け物
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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化 | 物 |
ば Grade: 3 | もの Grade: 3 |
kun’yomi |
Alternative forms
- 化物
- 化けもの
- (someone of prodigious ability): (informal) ばけもん (bakemon)
Etymology
Compound of 化け (bake, “transforming”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 化ける bakeru, “take a different form, disguise oneself”) + 物 (mono, “thing”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) ばけもの [bàkémóꜜnò] (Nakadaka – [3])[3][2]
- (Tokyo) ばけもの [bàkémónóꜜ] (Odaka – [4])[2]
- IPA(key): [ba̠ke̞mo̞no̞]
Noun
化け物 • (bakemono)
- a monster, a ghost, a phantom
- 化け物のような茄子
- bakemono no yō na nasu
- a monstrous eggplant, a monster of an eggplant
- 1999 March 27, “ラーバス [Larvas]”, in Vol.2, Konami:
- 素早く動く鳥のばけもの。細く長い腕をからませ絞めあげる。
- Subayaku ugoku tori no bakemono. Hosoku nagai ude o karamase shimeageru.
- A nimble avian monster who will strangle you with his long thin arms.
- 素早く動く鳥のばけもの。細く長い腕をからませ絞めあげる。
- 化け物のような茄子
- someone of prodigious ability
- トランプにかけては化け物だ。
- Toranpu ni kakete wa bakemono da.
- He's a monster / a whiz at cards.
- トランプにかけては化け物だ。
Synonyms
- (monster): お化け (obake), 妖怪 (yōkai)
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 化け物絵 (bakemono e): a picture of a ghost or monster
- 化け物屋敷 (bakemono yashiki): haunted house
- 化け物蝋燭 (bakemono rōsoku): a kind of shadow theater or play
References
- 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →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
- 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN