道楽者

Japanese
Kanji in this term
道 楽 者
どう
Grade: 2		 らく
Grade: 2		 もの
Grade: 3
goon on’yomi kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
道樂者 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Compound of 道楽 (dōraku, “drinking, womanizing, gambling, and other forms of hedonistic pursuits: dissipation”) +‎ 者 (-mono, “person”).[1][2][3][4]

First cited to a work from 1686.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) どーらくもの [dòórákúmónó] (Heiban – [0])[3][4][5]
  • (Tokyo) どーらくもの​ [dòórákúmónóꜜ] (Odaka – [6])[3][5]
  • IPA(key): [do̞ːɾa̠kɯ̟ᵝmo̞no̞]

Noun

道(どう)楽(らく)者(もの) • (dōrakumono) ←だうらくもの (daurakumono)?

  1. [from 1686] libertine, debauchee, playboy
    • 1927, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, 河童 [Kappa]:
      その又(また)雌(めす)の河(かつ)童(ぱ)と云(い)ふのは亭(てい)主(しゆ)を殺(ころ)すつもりでゐたのです。何(なに)しろ亭(てい)主(しゆ)は道(だう)楽(らく)者(もの)でしたからね。
      Sono mata mesu no kappa to iu no wa teishu o korosu tsumori de ita no desu. Nani shiro teishu wa dōrakumono deshita kara ne.
      And so it turned out that said female kappa was planning on murdering her husband. It's no wonder; her husband was quite the debauchee.

References
  1. “道楽者”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. “道楽者”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. 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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