Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
はぐく
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
哺む

Etymology edit

Possibly From () (ha, wing) + (くく) (kukumu, to contain).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

(はぐく) or (はごく) (hagukumu or hagokumutransitive godan (stem (はぐく) (hagukumi), past (はぐく)んだ (hagukunda))

  1. raise, bring up, rear

Conjugation edit

References edit

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