まんびき

Japanese

Alternative spellings
万引き万引

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/mabiki/ → /maɴbiki/

Shift from 間引き (mabiki, “thinning out”), from verb 間引く (mabiku, “to thin out seedlings; to pull out items from the middle”).^[1]^[2] The original term first referred to the process of culling seedlings. Over time, this was used more euphemistically to refer to a shoplifter "thinning out" a store's merchandise.

First attested as manbiki in a text from 1831.^[3]

The use of 万 to spell the man portion is an example of ateji (当て字).

まんびき • (manbiki)

まんびきする • (manbiki suru) suru (stem まんびきし (manbiki suru shi), past まんびきした (manbiki suru shita))

Conjugation of "まんびきする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	まんびきし	manbiki shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	まんびきし	manbiki shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	まんびきする	manbiki suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	まんびきする	manbiki suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	まんびきすれ	manbiki sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	まんびきせよ¹ まんびきしろ²	manbiki seyo¹ manbiki shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	まんびきされる	manbiki sareru
Causative	まんびきさせるまんびきさす	manbiki saseru manbiki sasu
Potential	まんびきできる	manbiki dekiru
Volitional	まんびきしよう	manbiki shiyō
Negative	まんびきしない	manbiki shinai
Negative continuative	まんびきせず	manbiki sezu
Formal	まんびきします	manbiki shimasu
Perfective	まんびきした	manbiki shita
Conjunctive	まんびきして	manbiki shite
Hypothetical conditional	まんびきすれば	manbiki sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ “万引”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984
^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN