Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

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

Etymology edit

⟨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 edit

  • 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 edit

()もる (komoruintransitive 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 edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

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