kotatsu
English
Etymology
Noun
kotatsu (plural kotatsu or kotatsus)
- A knee-high table with a heater inside which is used with a coverlet during winter.
- 2012 summer, Ed Wright, “Fiction: An end to hope”, in Julianne Schultz, editor, The Novella Project (GriffithREVIEW; 38), Melbourne, Vic.: Text Publishing, →ISBN, section 1, pages 149–150:
- I dreamed my way through cold winters with my family at the kotatsu, with my friends at their kotatsus, huddled under my futon alone in the cold nights.
Translations
a knee-high table with an electric foot-warmer
Anagrams
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 炬燵 (kotatsu).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /koˈtatsu/ [koˈt̪at̪̚.su]
- Rhymes: -atsu
- Syllabification: ko‧tat‧su
Noun
kotatsu (plural kotatsu-kotatsu)
Further reading
- “kotatsu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Japanese
Romanization
kotatsu