しぐれ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of しぐれ – see the following entry.
【時雨】
[noun] a rainshower in late summer, autumn, or winter
[noun] (by extension, figurative) shedding tears
[noun] short for 時雨煮 (shigureni), 時雨羹 (shigurekan), 時雨饅頭 (shigure manjū), etc.
[noun] short for 時雨蛤 (shigure hamaguri): clams cooked in the shigureni method with soy sauce; a specialty of Kuwana, Mie Prefecture
[verb] to rain a shower
[verb] to shed tears
[proper noun] name of an 泡盛 (awamori, “Okinawan liquor made from rice or millet”)
[proper noun] a Shiratsuyu-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, see Japanese destroyer Shigure (1935) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[proper noun] a female given name
[proper noun] a surname
(This term, しぐれ (shigure), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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