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からず

karazu

Definition

Noun

  1. Hair (on the head)

Etymology

Cognate with Tokunoshima からーじ karaaji; Tokunoshima (Isenchou) からぜィんけェ karazïnkë; Okinoerabu はらじ haraji; Okinawan からじ karaji; Miyako からず karazu; and Yonaguni からん karan "hair (on the head)".

Historical Ryukyuan attestations

  • Historically transcribed in Chinese sources as 嗑籃子 [kaɁ.lan.tsɿ] and 嗑藍子 [kaɁ.lan.tsɿ] and Korean sources as 가난ㅿᅮ [ka.nan.zu], suggesting Old Okinawan *karazu. (Source: Lin, Chihkai. A reconstruction of Old Okinawan: A corpus-based approach (2015), page 150).
  • A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, 1795-1798 (1804), by William Robert Broughton, records "Karatzee, The hair".
  • Vocabulary of the language spoken at the Great Loo-Choo island in the Japan Sea (1818), by Herbert John Clifford, records "Hair. Kurrázzee".
  • Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste: Along the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew, with an Account of Her Subsequent Shipwreck (1818), by John M'Leod, records "Hair. Carasee".
  • Essay in Aid of a Grammmar and Dictionary of the Luchuan Language (1895), by Basil Hall Chamberlain, records "Karazi, the hair of the head, specifically the Luchuan queue: karazi nu yadi (equivalent to Jap. zu-tsū shite), having a headache; karazi yū yā, a barber".
  • 沖縄語典 Okinawa goten (Okinawan language dictionary) (1896), by Masayo Nakamoto, records "「からずィ」髪(カミ)、沖縄ニテ髪ヲ賤メテゐんじやらト云フ."

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Kanaからず
Romanizationkarazu

意味:かみ【髪】、け【毛】、かしら【頭】、ヘア、かみのけ【髪の毛】

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Cite this entry: Read, Zachary. (2024, December 25). からず : karazu | define meaning. JLect: Japonic Languages and Dialects Database. Retrieved 2025, January 9, from https://www.jlect.com/entry/3119/karazu/.