のきなみ

Japanese
Alternative spellings
軒並み
軒並

Etymology

From 軒(のき) (noki) + 並(なみ) (nami).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) のきなみ [nòkínámí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [no̞kʲina̠mʲi]

Noun

のきなみ • (nokinami) 

  1. line of eaves; row of eaves
  2. each of the eaves

Adverb

のきなみ • (nokinami) 

  1. (figuratively) all similarly

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