noun:

• small dried sardines or anchovies (gomame) cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and sugar ➜ 古女【ごまめ】
• tilling a rice field; person who tills a paddy field

noun / ~する noun:

• breaking ground; ground-breaking (ceremony)

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to try and do something; to attempt to do something ➜ 為る【する】・とする

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to gather (bringing something); to gather (to exchange something)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to come off; to slip down; to slip off

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to add to the staff; to increase the staff

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to turn round; to face about; to turn about

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to envy; to be envious (of); to be jealous (of) - Kantō dialect

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be mad; to go mad; to go insane - colloquialism

noun / ~する noun:

• loving listening to something; loving to listen to something

godan ~る verb:

• to dart away; to dart off; to gallop away

noun:

• someone who plays the part of a 'heel' (bad guy) in wrestling, films, etc. ➜ ヒール

expression:

• someone who was just crying quickly cheers up and smiles; a child's emotions change easily

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to scrape out; to rake out (e.g. ashes); to bail out (e.g. water)

noun:

• samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation) ［さんまい］ - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit

suffix noun:

• being immersed in; being absorbed in; indulging in; doing to one's heart's content - usu. ざんまい
• prone to; apt to - usu. ざんまい

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to go on about (one's love affairs); to speak proudly of (one's spouse, girlfriend, etc.); to speak fondly of

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:

• protection; advocacy; support; defence; championship; vindication

~する noun:

• to protect (e.g. rights, etc.); to advocate (e.g. free trade, etc.); to support

noun / ~する noun:

• committing suicide (to remonstrate or dissuade one's lord); preparing to die in an effort to dissuade one's lord

noun / ~する noun:

• visit to a grave

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to catch a cold

noun:

• subscription (e.g. to a magazine)

noun / ~する noun:

• move in (to a new house)

noun / ~する noun:

• postponement; moving to a later date

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to bring (somebody into a place)