馬車馬
Japanese edit
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 馬 | 車 | 馬 |
| ば Grade: 2 |
しゃ Grade: 1 |
うま Grade: 2 |
| kan’on | on’yomi | kun’yomi |
Etymology edit
Compound of 馬車 (basha, “horse-drawn carriage”) + 馬 (uma, “horse”).[1][2][3][4]
First attested in a text from 1898.[1]
The figurative sense developed from the way that carriage horses have blinkers, so all they see is what is in front of them.[1][2][3][4]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- [from 1898] (literal) a carriage horse
- [from 1900] (figurative) a person absorbed in work and blind to all else
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ 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