いけん

See also: いげん

Japanese

Etymology 1
For pronunciation and definitions of いけん – see the following entries.
【威権】
[noun] authority
【異見】
[noun] different opinion
[noun] objection
[verb] have a differing opinion
【意見】
[noun] opinion
[noun] advice, a suggestion
[verb] to advise, to suggest
[verb] to admonish
【違憲】
[noun] unconstitutionality
(This term, いけん, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)

(The following entry is uncreated: 遺賢.)

Etymology 2

A shift from いけぬ (ikenu), the classical conjugation of modern いけない (ikenai).[1]

  • /ikenu/ → /ikeɴ/

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ikẽ̞ɴ]

Verb

いけん • (iken) 

  1. (Chūgoku, Shikoku, Kansai) to be not good, bad, forbidden
    あの子(こ)はいけん。
    Ano ko wa iken.
    That kid is no good.
  2. (Chūgoku, Shikoku, Kansai) it's bad if, you must not, you should not... (used after a conditional such as ば (-ba) or と (to) or たら (-tara), or after a nominalized verb phrase ending in the て (-te) conjunctive conjugation and often the particle は (ha) or も (mo))
    お風呂入(ふろはい)らないといけん。
    Ofuro hairanai to iken.
    It's bad if you don't take a bath.
    まだ食(た)べてはいけんよ。
    Mada tabete wa iken yo.
    You really shouldn't eat yet.
Synonyms

References
  1. “行ん”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
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