noun / ~する noun:

• fasting; abstinence; confinement to one's house on an unlucky day

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to suspend between two points; to build (a bridge, etc.); to put up on something (e.g. legs up on table) - sometimes written 掛ける

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to cling to ... in tears; to beg ... in tears; to appeal; to throw oneself on someone's mercy

noun:

• falling (down); tumbling (down); falling to the ground
• failure; failing
• renouncing Christianity and converting to Buddhism (during the Edo period); apostasy
• batter (construction technique)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to try and reach above one's station and fail; to try and accomplish something beyond one's abilities and fail; a monkey tries to catch the moon (and drowns) [literal] - idiom ➜ 猿猴捉月

noun:

• individual lesson; tutorial; one-on-one instruction

noun:

• O-Bon; Bon Festival; Lantern Festival; Festival of the Dead ➜ 盆【ぼん】
• tray ➜ 盆【ぼん】

noun:

• Maratha; Mahratta; member of the Hindu people of Maharashtra (esp. a member of the royal or military caste)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to just appear; to be half out; to be on the tip of one's tongue

noun / adverb:

• hourly; from hour to hour; moment by moment; momently; from one minute to the next; with each passing moment - four character idiom

expression:

• person who swaggers about under borrowed authority; small man acting arrogantly through borrowed authority; a fox that borrows the authority of a tiger [literal] - idiom

noun:

• remote countryside; boondocks; the sticks ➜ ド田舎【ドいなか】

noun:

• compendium of laws; statute books; complete book of the Six Codes [literal]

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give up; to admit defeat; to throw in the towel

noun:

• standard motorcycle; naked bike; style of motorcycle having the engine exposed and visible

noun:

• prankster; joker; taking a joke to the extreme - Ōsaka dialect

expression:

• this is why; this means; it is the case that

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• rumination; regurgitation; chewing the cud

noun / ~する noun:

• turning over in one's mind; thinking over something; pondering; musing; rumination (about a subject)

noun:

• speculative buying; buying long; buying on margin

noun:

• after ages; posterity; future life; the next world

expression / adjective:

• slow-witted; dull; slow on the uptake ➜ 頭の回転【あたまのかいてん】

noun:

• being much talked about; creating a stir; being the talk of town - four character idiom

adjectival noun:

• insane; mad; crazy; light in the head

noun:

• fireside; hearth; by the fire

expression / ~よい adjective:

• close; intimate; on good terms - colloquialism - abbreviation