つむる

Japanese

Alternative spellings
瞑る
閉る

Etymology

From つぶる (tsuburu). Bilabial plosive /b/ becomes bilabial nasal /m/.

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) むる [tsùmúrú] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [t͡sɨmɯ̟ɾɯ̟]

Verb

つむる • (tsumurutransitive godan (stem つむり (tsumuri), past つむった (tsumutta))

  1. alternative form of つぶる (tsuburu, to close one's eyes)

Conjugation

References

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