南蛮煙管

Japanese

Kanji in this term
南 蛮 煙 管
なん
Grade: 2 		ばん
Grade: S 		キセル > ギセル
Grade: S Grade: 4
goon kan'on jukujikun
Alternative spelling
南蠻煙管 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Compound of 南蛮 (nanban, “southern barbarians”, in reference to the Spanish and Portuguese traders of the 1500s-1600s) +‎ 煙管 (kiseru, “pipe”),[1][2] perhaps from the way that the flower and stem are shaped roughly like a European smoking pipe. The kiseru changes to giseru as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

First attested in the 日本植物名彙 (Nihon Shokubutsu Meii, “Japanese Plant Names”), a reference work from 1884.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) なんばんぎせる [nàńbáń gíꜜsèrù] (Nakadaka – [5])[2]
  • IPA(key): [nã̠mba̠ŋʲ ɡʲise̞ɾɯ̟]

Noun

南蛮煙管(なんばんぎせる) or 南蛮煙管(ナンバンギセル) • (nanban-giseru) 

  1. Aeginetia indica: Indian broomrape or forest ghost flower
    Synonyms: 煙管草 (kiseru-sō), (archaic) 思い草 (omoi-gusa), (rare) オランダギセル (Oranda-giseru)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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