鼾掻

Japanese
Kanji in this term
鼾 掻
くつち
Hyōgaiji		 か(き)
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
鼾搔 (kyūjitai)

Alternative forms
  • 鼾掻き

Etymology

Compound of 鼾 (kutsuchi, “snoring; epilepsy”) +‎ 掻き (kaki, “making something manifest”), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 掻く (kaku, “to scratch; to make manifest”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kɯ̟ᵝt͡sɨᵝt͡ɕika̠kʲi]

Noun

鼾(くつち)掻(かき) • (kutsuchikaki) 

  1. (rare, obsolete) snoring
  2. (rare, obsolete) an epileptic, a person who has epilepsy

Synonyms
  • (snoring):: 鼾(いびき) (ibiki)
  • (epileptic):: 癲癇持(てんかんも)ち (tenkanmochi), 癲癇持(てんかんもち) (tenkanmochi)

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.