noun:

• heavy flooding; disastrous flood; deluge
• great flood (sent by a deity); flood myth

yodan ~ふ verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to serve (by a superior's side) ［候ふ］ - archaism

auxiliary verb / yodan ~ふ verb (archaic):

• to be - auxiliary used in place of ある after で or に when forming a copula - archaism - polite language
• to do - auxiliary used in place of ます after a -masu stem - archaism - polite language

adverb / ~と adverb:

• gradually; by degrees; little by little; more and more; increasingly

noun:

• steps; stairs; staircase; terrace

noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• enraged outcry; loud protest; being bitterly criticized by others; being loudly denounced by others - four character idiom

adverb / ~の noun / noun:

• two at a time; two by two; in twos

noun:

• long interlude (in folk songs or koto music)
• wiles (e.g. used by a prostitute to lure customers); finesse; trick

expression:

• by mere chance; by some chance; somehow or other; in some way

noun / ~する noun:

• death by physical trauma; violent death; exogenous death; death by an external cause

adjective:

• close (e.g. friend); familiar; friendly; intimate
• familiar (e.g. story); well-known (to one)
• close (relatives); closely related

noun / ~する noun:

• drag

noun:

• drug; medicine
• (illegal) drug; narcotics

~する noun:

• to highlight (e.g. by click-dragging a cursor over text) - IT term

noun:

• mountain folk; hermit
• mountain wizard ［やまびと］ ➜ 仙人
• word used as part of a pseudonym by artists, writers, etc. ［さんじん］

noun:

• palanquin set with jewels
• money and social status gained by marrying a rich and powerful man ➜ 玉の輿に乗る【たまのこしにのる】

noun:

• manga cafe; coffee shop with a manga library (usu. has Internet facilities and charges by the hour) - abbreviation ➜ 漫画喫茶

noun:

• sleeping quarters; bedroom (mainly refers to one used by a married couple)
• inner room; inner sanctum

expression:

• financially ruining oneself by buying too many clothes (as a fabled tendency of the people of Kyoto) ➜ 大阪の食い倒れ・着倒れ

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to become accustomed to calling (e.g. someone by a certain name)

noun:

• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ➜ お達し【おたっし】

noun:

• love that is motivated by job-hunting; using sex to get a job - From English "recruit love"

noun:

• Ichijitsu Shinto (alt. name for Hie Shinto: a form of Shinto heavily influenced by Tendai) - abbreviation - obscure term ➜ 山王一実神道

noun / adjectival noun:

• mincing; chopping finely

adjectival noun / noun:

• short and repeated (movements) (e.g. trembling, stepping quickly)
• gradual; bit by bit; little by little

godan ~る verb:

• to go by; to cross; to pass by; to float across

adverb / ~と adverb:

• spattering; splotching - onomatopoeia
• step-by-step; little-by-little - onomatopoeia
• soon - onomatopoeia

noun:

• dots
• ditto mark

adverb / ~と adverb:

• gradually; little by little; in a breezy manner - onomatopoeia

adverb:

• soon; before long - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• here and there; scattered - onomatopoeia

noun:

• spots; dots; pimples; rash - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Japanese scull (oar attached to the rear of the boat by a traditional peg-in-hole oarlock)

noun:

• "winner" of a meal paid for by dutch treat (i.e. the person who eats the most) - slang ➜ 割り勘負け