暮れ泥む

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 6
なず
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 暮れ (kure, darkening, setting of the sun, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, continuative or stem form) of verb 暮れる (kureru, to get dark, to sunset)) + 泥む (nazumu, to be on the verge of something happening).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

  • 暮れなずむ (common spelling)

Verb

暮れ泥む (intransitive, godan conjugation, hiragana くれなずむ, rōmaji kurenazumu, historical hiragana くれなづむ)

  1. to become twilight, (of a sunset) to linger

Conjugation

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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