カイロ

See also: かいろ

Japanese edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English Cairo.

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

(Tokyo) カイロ [káꜜìrò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ka̠iɾo̞]

Proper noun edit

カイロ • (Kairo)

Cairo (the capital of Egypt)
Cairo (a governorate of Egypt)

Etymology 2 edit

For pronunciation and definitions of カイロ – see the following entry.

【懐炉かいろ】

[noun] bosom-warmer; body-warmer

[noun] (by extension) handwarmer

(This term, カイロ, is the katakana spelling of the above term.)

References edit

^ 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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