godan ~す verb / ~す verb (precursor to modern する) / transitive:

• to offer; to present; to submit; to supply ➜ 供する
• to serve (food and drink)
• to offer (to the gods); to set up (before an alter)

expression:

• pride goes before a fall; pride comes before a fall; the proud Heike family does not last long [literal] - proverb ➜ 奢る平家久しからず【おごるへいけひさしからず】

expression / adjective:

• to ignore; to take no notice of; to give the cold shoulder to; to not associate with; to snub; to refuse to deal with

ichidan verb:

• to be popular (esp. with the opposite sex); to be well liked; to be pampered (spoiled, doted upon, etc.); to be welcomed

noun:

• blowing (e.g. of the wind)

noun / suffix noun:

• playing (a wind instrument); player (e.g. clarinet)

noun:

• (pair of) bellows ➜ 吹子
• casting; founding; melting

noun:

• day-care center (usu. for the elderly) (centre); day center - From English "day home"

adjectival noun:

• a long time (since the last time); it's been a while (since I last saw, mailed, etc., you) - Nagoya (and surrounding areas) dialect ➜ 久しぶり【ひさしぶり】

noun:

• approx. 80% of the way up a mountainside
• view of a light green mountain; mountain that appears green from afar

expression / noun:

• the Four Freedoms (as defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear)

noun:

• god of harvests and wealth (syncretized with Saraswati, and often taking the form of a heavenly woman, a white snake or a fox)

noun:

• ridge-tailed monitor (Varanus acanthurus, species of monitor lizard found throughout the arid northern regions of Australia); spiny-tailed monitor

noun:

• door-to-door manzai; form of comedy orig. performed at people's homes by entertainers during the New Year festivities; precursor to modern day manzai ➜ 漫才

noun:

• being inseparable as a form and its shadow; a person's deed mirrors the good or evil of his mind; husband and wife being never apart - four character idiom

noun:

• mouth; lips
• shape of the mouth
• near an entrance; vicinity of an entrance

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to reveal something by washing the surface
• to bring to light; to reveal by investigation

noun:

• Ministry of Popular Affairs (1869-1871) ［みんぶしょう］
• Ministry of Popular Affairs (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• blue green damselfish (Chromis viridis, a damselfish from the Indo-Pacific); blue-green chromis

noun:

• family registry (of the district) (Edo period); population registry; records of an Edo period census ➜ 戸籍簿

expression / adverb:

• as time goes by; as time went by; with the passage of time; over time

noun / ~する noun:

• reading (a text) aloud without trying to understand it ➜ 素読【そどく】
• reading a second draft without checking it against the original

noun:

• suicide immediately after the death of one's spouse or lover; following one's lover (husband, wife) into death

expression:

• wretched is the lot of a government official; it is better to work for oneself than to work for someone else - proverb

noun:

• ratio indicating the quantity of polished rice gained from a given quantity of brown rice (nowadays usually expressed as a percent)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to crack down on (e.g. crime, corruption); to deal a crushing blow to; to bring down the hammer on ➜ 鉄槌【てっつい】

noun:

• sardine and holly charm; sardine head and holly branch placed next to the front door during setsubun to ward off demons