noun:

• gift received from a visitor (usu. used when offering the visitor to partake of part of that gift) - honorific language - abbreviation ➜ 御持たせ物

noun:

• gift received from a visitor (usu. used when offering the visitor to partake of part of that gift) - honorific language ➜ お持たせ

suffix / particle:

• a mere (status or characteristic); implies activity unsuited to (status or characteristic)

noun / ~する noun:

• perusing as a side business; doing in addition to one's main work; running (businesses) simultaneously

noun:

• side business; job on the side

noun:

• pounding down earth around the roots of a tree
• adding short branches of flowers to the base of an arrangement in ikebana

noun:

• formal paragraph (in opposition to a logical paragraph); paragraph as defined by its formal elements (e.g. line break and initial indentation) ➜ 意味段落

noun:

• inn where one rests on the way - archaism
• inn that serves as a meeting place for lovers - archaism ➜ 出合い宿
• inn that introduces clients to prostitutes - archaism ➜ 引き手茶屋

noun:

• getting poised again for charging; toeing the mark again - Sumo term
• starting again; getting a fresh start; going back to square one

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to save an enemy from trouble instead of taking advantage of their weakness; to show humanity even to one's enemy; to help one's enemy in difficulty - from Uesugi Kenshin sending salt to his enemy, Takeda Shingen, when Takeda's salt supply had been cut off

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get back to normal; to get back into one's stride; to get back into the swing of it

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to fly through the air; to hurtle through the air
• to strike at something and miss; to fan the air

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to become; to amount to

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to weigh one thing against the other; to act in consideration of; to compare and take into consideration

ichidan verb:

• to use up all of one's energy and willpower; to be exhausted (and have no will to go on)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to just appear; to be half out; to be on the tip of one's tongue

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be launched (e.g. rocket); to lift off
• to be washed up (on the shore)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to keep one's chastity; to remain faithful to one's spouse; to remain faithful to one's lover

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to take one's place; to take one's position; to go into position; to line up

particle:

• -ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going") - as …たり…たり, after the ren'youkei forms of multiple verbs
• doing such things as... - used adverbially
• expresses a command - as …たり…たり at sentence-end, after the ren'youkei forms of a repeated verb

auxiliary verb:

• to be ［たり］ - from とあり, after a noun - archaism ➜ たる
• indicates completion or continuation of an action ［たり］ - from 〜てあり, after the ren'youkei form of a verb - archaism

noun:

• layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; man of the world; the world
• local manners; modern customs

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• common; popular
• vulgar; low Antonym: 雅【が】

suffix:

• our gracious (e.g. Queen); honorific that attaches to name of a person or thing that has bestowed grace or favour upon you

noun:

• companies exploiting debtors by forcing them to make expensive credit card purchases and buying the purchases at a fraction of the price

conjunction:

• if one were to speak of ..., then certainly; if it were the case that ..., then certainly; if it were a ..., then certainly; phrase used to indicate the inevitability of what follows it (based on what precedes it) ➜ 言う・言う
• so that means (when used in sentence-initial position)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to turn on; to switch on; to light up ➜ 付ける【つける】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to go past; to pass; to pass by