godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to censure; to criticize; to criticise; to rebuke; to defy; to disobey - archaism
• to fashion after; to make in the form of; to imitate - archaism

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be famous; to be celebrated; to be worthy of the name ➜ 名にし負う【なにしおう】

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be famous; to be celebrated; to be worthy of the name - emphatic form of 名に負う ➜ 名に負う【なにおう】

noun:

• fur seal (esp. the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus); Alaskan fur seal - From Ainu ➜ オットセイ

noun:

• fur seal (esp. the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus); Alaskan fur seal - obscure term - abbreviation ➜ 膃肭臍

noun:

• system parameter - IT term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth
• to be able to eat

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to get excited; to be roused (to action); to get the itch (to do) - idiom

expression:

• helping and protecting in all ways; acting as a raincoat (protecting from rain) and acting as a hat (protecting from sun) [literal] - proverb ➜ 陰になり日向になり【かげになりひなたになり】

expression / adverb:

• before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later
• of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them; among others

noun:

• warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai
• man in attendance (on a person of high standing); retainer ［さぶらい］ - archaism

noun:

• tug of war (orig. a form of divination to predict whether the year will be favourable or unfavourable)
• forward puller (of a rickshaw)

noun / ~の noun:

• telepathy; tacit understanding; thought transference; communion of mind with mind - four character idiom

noun:

• non-verbal Zen Buddhist transmission to a disciple of the central tenets of Buddhism - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting a thin object (e.g. vegetable stalk) at a 45 degree angle; cutting in a way that blunts or rounds the cut ➜ 削ぐ

noun:

• wide-mouthed ceramic vessel having a small hole in its spherical base (into which bamboo was probably inserted to pour liquids)
• teapot-like object made typically of lacquerware and used to pour hot and cold liquids ➜ 半挿【はんぞう】

prefix:

• surplus- (attaches to start of Sino-Japanese words); excess-; over-
• per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents)

noun:

• going through a cave, grass ring or the interior of a large Buddhistic statue, etc. (symbolizing rebirth)
• narrow grotto (into which a person can barely fit)

adjective:

• fast; quick; hasty; brisk - esp. 速い, 疾い, 捷い
• early (in the day, etc.); premature - esp. 早い
• (too) soon; not yet; (too) early - esp. 早い
• easy; simple; quick - esp. 早い ➜ 手っ取り早い

adjectival noun / noun:

• liked; well-liked; favourite; favorite Antonym: 嫌い【きらい】
• in love (with); loved; romantically interested (in)

noun / adjectival noun:

• faddism; eccentricity
• the way one likes; (as) it suits one

adverb:

• too; also; likewise; either ➜ 矢張り【やはり】
• still; as before ➜ 矢張り【やはり】
• even so; either way; after all; nonetheless; in any event; all the same ➜ 矢張り【やはり】
• as expected ➜ 矢張り【やはり】

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:

• leading a group of people; someone who leads others into a song by singing the leading notes ➜ 音頭を取る【おんどをとる】
• workmen's songs; marching songs

adverb / ~と adverb:

• in a crowd; in droves; in a stream; in succession - onomatopoeia
• crawling (of insects); swarming - onomatopoeia
• dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing; stretching out - onomatopoeia

noun:

• dance hall; dance floor
• landing (stairs)
• leveling off (e.g. in the economy); period of stagnation; cooling-off period; lull; plateau

noun:

• woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.); woman who works in an adult entertainment business; demimondaine; prostitute ➜ 商売人