少納言
Japanese
Etymology 1
Kanji in this term | ||
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少 | 納 | 言 |
しょう Grade: 2 |
な Grade: 6 |
ごん Grade: 2 |
on’yomi | kan’yōon | goon |
From 少 (shō, “junior, lower”) + 納言 (nagon, “counselor”, on-reading of monomōsu-tsukasa).
Noun
少納言 • (shōnagon) ←せうなごん (seunagon)?
- (historical, politics) a lesser counselor in the 太政官 (Daijō-kan, “Great Council of State”)
- c. 974, Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Haha, Kagerō Nikki (part one)
- ...少納言のとしへて四の品になりぬれば...
- ...shōnagon no toshi hete shi no shina ni narinureba...
- (please add an English translation of this example)
- ...少納言のとしへて四の品になりぬれば...
- c. 974, Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Haha, Kagerō Nikki (part one)
- (colloquial, from Sei Shōnagon being a female writer) a literature girl
- Synonym: 文学少女 (bungaku shōjo)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Kanji in this term | ||
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少 | 納 | 言 |
すくな(い) > すな(い) Grade: 2 |
ものもうすつかさ | |
Grade: 6 | Grade: 2 | |
kun’yomi | jukujikun |
From 少 (sunai-, “junior, lower”) + 納言 (monomōsu-tsukasa, “counselor”).
Noun
少納言 • (sunai monomōsu-tsukasa) ←すないものまうすつかさ (sunai monomausu-tukasa)?
See also
- 大納言 (ōi monomōsu-tsukasa, “chief counselor”)
- 中納言 (naka no monomōsu-tsukasa, “middle counselor”)
Etymology 3
Kanji in this term | ||
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少 | 納 | 言 |
すくな(い) > すな(い) Grade: 2 |
Grade: 6 | Grade: 2 |
kun’yomi | irregular |
From 少 (sunai-, “junior, lower”) + 物申し (monomōshi, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 物申す (monomōsu), “to object, speak”).
Noun
少納言 • (sunai monomōshi) ←すないものまうし (sunai monomausi)?
- (historical, politics, archaic) a lesser counselor in the 太政官 (Ōimatsurigoto no Tsukasa, “Great Council of State”)
- 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 5:
- 少納言 軄員令云:少納言[須奈伊毛乃萬之]
- Lesser counselor - according to the Shikiin-ryō: the lesser counselor, [read as] sunai monomōshi
See also
- 給事中 (kyūjichū)
References
- Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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