カピタン

Japanese

Alternative forms

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