のろ

Japanese

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のろ • (noro)

For pronunciation and definitions of のろ – see the following entries.

【祝女】	[noun] (historical, Okinawa) a hereditary priestess in Okinawa

【鈍】S	[adjective] [1891] mentally slow, dull-witted, stupid [adjective] [1891] physically slow, slow of action [noun] dullard, dimwit

【野呂】	[proper noun] a surname

【麕】H	[noun] roe deer Alternative spellings 麞, 獐, ノロ

(This term, のろ, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as のろ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as のろ.)

Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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