ゴキブリ

Japanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From 御器かぶり (gokikaburi), which came from 御器 (goki, “dish”) + かぶり (kaburi, “biting”). Up until the Meiji era, this used to be the word for "cockroach". Due to typographical errors, the か became omitted. The original form still exists today in certain dialects, and furthermore there are variations of it across dialects as well.

Pronunciation
  • (Irregular reading)

Noun

ゴキブリ (counter 匹, hiragana ごきぶり, rōmaji gokiburi)

  1. a cockroach

Synonyms

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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