godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to strain; to bear down (in giving birth)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• silently (as the grave); quietly (as in death) - onomatopoeia

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to assort; to classify; to journalize (in accounting); to journalise

noun:

• jitte; short truncheon with a hook made of metal or wood (used by policemen and private thief-takers in Edo Japan)

noun:

• under one's arm; (in) the armpit

noun / ~する noun:

• establishing a club (at a school, college, etc.); establishing a division (in a company)

noun / adjectival noun:

• height (of summer, party, etc.); (in) full swing

noun:

• daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era)

noun:

• smoke of powder and hail of bullets; (in) the thick of the raging battle - four character idiom

noun:

• red letter style; cutesy fashion style named after fashion magazines featuring it (whose cover titles are printed in red or pink) ➜ 青文字系

noun:

• blue letter style; comparatively mature fashion style named after fashion magazines featuring it (whose cover titles are printed in blue) ➜ 赤文字系

noun:

• Noraism; women breaking with family and seeking individual freedom (from heroine in Ibsen's "Doll's House")

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get a black belt; to obtain a degree (in judo)

noun:

• cenote; sinkhole (esp. in the Yucatan peninsula) - From Spanish

noun:

• associate (of arts); associate's degree (in arts)

noun:

• medial; final-head (glide before the center vowel in Chinese)

noun:

• right to decide; having say (in a decision)

noun:

• skirmish; prefinals (in games)

noun / ~の noun:

• peerless bravery; matchless valor (in arms) - four character idiom

noun:

• rice granules; coarse glutinous rice flour (often used in candy production)

noun:

• Parsee; Parsi (adherent of Zoroastrianism, esp. descendants of those who fled to India to escape persecution in Persia)

noun:

• floor space; area (in tsubo)

noun:

• nutmeg (soccer); hitting a ball through the legs (e.g. in tennis) - slang - Sports term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick into (of something with a sharp point); to prick; to pierce; to get stuck (in); to lodge (in)

expression / adjective:

• it can't be helped; it is inevitable; nothing can be done; there's no point (in doing something); there's no reason (to do something)