夢物語
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | ||
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夢 | 物 | 語 |
ゆめ Grade: 5 |
もの Grade: 3 |
かた(り) > がた(り) Grade: 2 |
kun’yomi |
Etymology edit
Compound of 夢 (yume, “dream”) + 物語 (monogatari, “story, tale”).[1][2][3]
First cited to a text from roughly 1220.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
夢物語 • (yume monogatari)
- [from 1220] the accounts of a dream
- [from 1807] a pipe dream
- Synonym: 夢語り (yumegatari)
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN