noun / ~する noun:

• play; recreation

noun:

• play (theatre)

noun / ~する noun:

• performance; staging

noun:

• praying
• play ball; starting a match - abbreviation ➜ プレーボール

expression:

• men should be brave, women should be affable - obscure term

noun:

• business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed

expression / adverb:

• or perhaps I should say; or more precisely; or, how should I put it; or rather ➜ ってゆうか

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to play a trick; to put up a false show; to deceive someone
• to put on a play; to present a play; to give a play - original meaning

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play innocent; to have a blank facial expression
• to play the fool
• to be in one's dotage

noun:

• close play - usu. baseball - Sports term
• cross-play (video games); cross-platform play ［クロスプレイ］

noun:

• game of make-believe; child's play; pretend play

noun:

• play within a play

noun:

• morality play; allegorical play

conjunction:

• or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean - colloquialism ➜ と言うか

noun:

• individual play; one-man effort; non-cooperation; playing on one's own; selfish play

noun:

• baby's play pen; play yard
• Pleiad; La Pléiade; one of a group of seven 16th century French poets - From French

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to play a dirty trick; to use underhanded methods; to hit below the belt; to play false

noun:

• kyogen interlude; short scene during a noh play, performed by a kyogen actor (usu. explaining the play) ➜ 本狂言

noun:

• kyogen interlude; short scene during a noh play, performed by a kyogen actor (usu. explaining the play) ➜ 間狂言

noun:

• play put on in a village; play put on by villagers

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to play a leading role; to play a central part

noun:

• kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play ➜ 本狂言・間狂言
• kabuki play; kabuki performance
• make-believe; ruse; trick

noun / ~する noun:

• performance of a noh play; performing a noh play

noun:

• on-the-spot or live broadcast; running commentary; blow-by-blow report; play-by-play report

expression:

• should; must ➜ 可き

suffix:

• shall; should; must ➜ 可き

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to play a role; to serve a function; to play a part

expression:

• should time and circumstances permit