Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3

Grade: 6
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
飮み干す (kyūjitai)
飲み乾す

Etymology edit

Compound of () (nomu, to drink) + () (hosu, to dry, to desiccate).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

()() (nomihosutransitive godan (stem ()() (nomihoshi), past ()()した (nomihoshita))

  1. drink up, gulp down, empty one's glass
    • 1907, フレッド・M・ホワイト (Fureddo M Howaito) [Fred M. White], translated by (おく)(ます)() (Oku Masuo), (れん)(ごく) (Rengoku)[1]:
      メアリの(よう)()したソーダ(すい)をぐいと()()した
      Meari no yōi shita sōda-sui o gui to nomihoshita.
      (He) drank up the soda water Mary had brought.

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN