noun:

• fatwa; legal pronouncement in Islam, issued by a religious law specialist on a specific issue - From Arabic "fatwa"

noun:

• ball-toss game, in which balls are thrown into a basket on a high pole (played at sports festivals)

noun:

• tao-tie engraving; figure of a creature of Chinese mythology engraved on bronze ware during the Yin-Chou dynasty

noun:

• over-demanding parent; parent who makes selfish and unreasonable demands on behalf of their child - From English "monster parent" ➜ モンペ

noun / ~する noun:

• walking while holding on to something (such as a wall or table); cruising (i.e. children learning to walk)

noun:

• breakwater; seawall; bulwark; mole; narrow stone structure for breaking incoming waves and loading goods on and off ships ➜ 防波堤

noun:

• peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures

noun:

• over-demanding parents; parents who makes selfish and unreasonable demands on behalf of their child - From English "monster parents" ➜ モンスターペアレント

noun:

• standing by at home (e.g. to prevent the spread of illness)
• being on furlough; being temporarily laid off

noun:

• name plate on the front of a train, bus, etc.; number plate; rollsign; roll sign - From English "head mark"

noun:

• lido; area on a cruise ship having the main outdoor swimming pool and sunbathing area

noun:

• outer layer (e.g. of skin); cuticle; epidermis; bark; rind; crust; film (on the surface of a liquid); scum ➜ 上皮

noun:

• always conducting oneself as though one were on a battlefield; being combat ready at all times (of a person) - four character idiom

noun:

• territory of a stall vendor
• spot on a farm where the harvest would be put in order (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• feeble anger (that one cannot act on because one is powerless); the clenching teeth of a dried sardine [literal] - idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on
• to bear (guilt, etc.)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to fold (one's) arms
• to stand by and do nothing; to look on passively

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to shuffle (on one's bottom or knees); to crawl
• to shift position (of an object)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to turn someone down (on some pretext) without offending them; to refuse gracefully; to decline politely

noun:

• rite welcoming back the gods from Izumo Shrine (on the last day of the tenth lunar month) ➜ 神送り

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to place both hands on the ground (to express respect, apology or to present a request)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to call dibs; to establish a claim; to spit on something (thus preventing others from taking it) [literal] - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to place both hands on the ground (to express respect, apology or to present a request) ➜ 手を突く

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to place both hands on the ground (to express respect, apology or to present a request) ➜ 手を突く

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to hurry (up); to urge on; to press; to rush