籠もる

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
籠る (dated)
隠る (dated)
篭る
篭もる

Etymology

⟨ko2mo2ru⟩ → */kəməru//komoru/

From Old Japanese 隠る (ko2mo2ru).

The stem kom- relates to “fill, filling”, therefore likely cognate with 込む (komu, to be crowded, be packed). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) [kòmóꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [2])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ko̞mo̞ɾɯ̟ᵝ]
  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "籠もる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
籠もる [kòmóꜜrù]
Imperative (命令形) 籠もれ [kòmóꜜrè]
Key constructions
Passive 籠もられる もられ [kòmóráréꜜrù]
Causative 籠もらせる もらせ [kòmóráséꜜrù]
Potential 籠もれる もれ [kòmóréꜜrù]
Volitional 籠もろう もろ [kòmóróꜜò]
Negative 籠もらない もらない [kòmóráꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 籠もらなかった もらなかった [kòmóráꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 籠もります もりま [kòmórímáꜜsù]
Perfective 籠もった った [kòmóꜜttà]
Conjunctive 籠もって って [kòmóꜜttè]
Hypothetical conditional 籠もれば れば [kòmóꜜrèbà]

Verb

()もる • (komoru) intransitive godan (stem ()もり (komori), past ()もった (komotta))

  1. to seclude oneself
  2. to be filled with...
  3. to be stuffy, to be muffled

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • ()もり (komori)
  • ()()もる (hikikomoru)

References

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