noun:

• Druze; Druse; Islamic sect primarily found in Syria and Lebanon

temporal noun:

• today; this day; used in theater (kyogen, noh song, kabuki) when emphasizing ➜ 今日
• these days; recently; nowadays ➜ 今日

suffix noun:

• superior to (e.g. professional, etc. in ability or achievement) ➜ 裸足【はだし】

noun:

• ignoring (one thing) for (another) ➜ 其方退け【そっちのけ】

noun:

• manpower supplied by designated adult men to government officials, or tax in lieu (ritsuryo system)

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• rare; uncommon; unusual ［レア・レアー］
• rare; lightly cooked ［レア・レアー］

noun:

• rhea (bird of family Rheidae)
• Rhea (Greek goddess)
• Rhea (moon of Saturn) ［レア］ - Astronomy term

noun:

• sickle handle
• goby minnow (Pseudogobio esocinus)
• Oriental photinia (species of shrub, Photinia villosa) ➜ 牛殺し
• Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis) ➜ 露草
• Joseph's-coat (species of amaranth, Amaranthus tricolor) ➜ 葉鶏頭

noun:

• current master; father of one's current master - honorific language ➜ 若殿【わかとの】
• minister (of government); noble - honorific language
• nobleman's residence - honorific language - archaism

noun / suffix noun:

• (mountain) pass; ridge; peak

noun:

• peak (e.g. of summer); worst (e.g. of an illness); crisis; critical point; most difficult part

noun:

• gudgeon (any fish of genus Gnathopogon or related genera)
• willow gudgeon (Gnathopogon caerulescens) ➜ 本諸子
• longtooth grouper (species of fish, Epinephelus bruneus) ➜ 九絵

noun:

• information; news; intelligence; advices
• information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.

noun:

• rain shower in late autumn (fall) or early winter
• seasonable rain ［じう］

adjectival noun / noun:

• chief; main; principal; important ➜ 主な・主に
• main secondary or supporting role (in kyogen) - usu. written as オモ - abbreviation ➜ 重あど

noun:

• shabu-shabu; thinly sliced meat boiled quickly with vegetables, and dipped in sauce - from the sound of this dish being prepared - onomatopoeia - Food term

noun:

• wolf (Canis lupus)
• wolf in sheep's clothing; womanizer

noun / ~する noun:

• coming flying in (migratory birds, airborne sand, pollen, etc.)
• coming by airplane

noun / ~する noun:

• sharp, loud rebuke; bark; roar
• rebuke used in Zen to achieve enlightenment ➜ 喝【かつ】

expression:

• almost; very nearly; only just; barely; just in time

expression:

• if we put this another way; in other words; put differently

noun:

• expert; skillful person
• good move (in shogi, go, etc.); clever move

noun / ~する noun:

• feigned innocence or naivete; beguiling innocence; wolf in sheep's clothing

expression / noun / ~の noun:

• different strokes for different folks; people doing something in their own way - four character idiom

noun:

• reeling in (thread, etc.)
• transport by passing from hand-to-hand

expression / ichidan verb:

• to set about in earnest; to put one's back into something - sensitive

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to suffer from pulmonary tuberculosis; to have trouble in one's lungs

expression:

• love is blind; (when in love) even pockmarks are dimples [literal] - proverb