お転婆

Japanese

Kanji in this term
てん
Grade: 3

Grade: S
on’yomi
Alternative spellings
お轉婆 (kyūjitai)
御転婆

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Dutch ontembaar (untameable, indomitable): (o, honorific prefix) + (てん) (ten, to turn) + () (ba, old woman). This is a typical case of folk etymology.

Pronunciation

Adjective

(てん)() • (otenba) -na (adnominal (てん)() (otenba na), adverbial (てん)() (otenba ni))

  1. tomboyish

Inflection

Noun

(てん)() • (otenba) 

  1. tomboy

Synonyms

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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