梅干し

Japanese
梅干し (umeboshi): a few umeboshi, pickled Japanese plums.
Kanji in this term
梅 干
うめ
Grade: 4		 ほ > ぼ
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compound of 梅 (ume, “plum”) +‎ 干し (hoshi, “drying, dried”), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 干す (hosu, “to dry”).[1][2] The hoshi changes to boshi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

梅干し (hiragana うめぼし, rōmaji umeboshi)

  1. umeboshi: salt-dried or pickled Japanese ume (a kind of plum); very sour, and often used as a condiment in Japanese cooking
  2. (slang) an elderly person (from the similarity of wrinkled skin to a wrinkled umeboshi; compare usage of English prune)
  3. (medicine) an unripe Japanese ume that has been smoked over a fire until black, used in traditional medicines and as a pigment

Synonyms

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 梅干 (うめぼ)し和 (あ)え (umeboshi ae), 梅干和 (うめぼしあえ) (umeboshi ae): a dressing or sauce for fish or vegetables made of umeboshi mixed with sugar or other sweetener
  • 梅干 (うめぼ)し飴 (あめ) (umeboshi ame), 梅干飴 (うめぼしあめ) (umeboshi ame): "umeboshi candy": a sweet resembling an umeboshi in shape and/or size and/or flavor
  • 梅干 (うめぼ)し磯巾着 (いそぎんちゃく) (umeboshi iso ginchaku), 梅干磯巾着 (うめぼしいそぎんちゃく) (umeboshi iso ginchaku): Actiniidae, a family of sea anemone
  • 梅干 (うめぼ)しの木 (き) (umeboshi no ki), 梅干 (うめぼし)の木 (き) (umeboshi no ki): alternate term for 権萃 (gonzui) or 三つ葉空木 (mitsuba utsugi), the Staphylea bumalda, a kind of bladdernut tree
  • 梅干 (うめぼ)し婆 (ばば) (umeboshi baba), 梅干婆 (うめぼしばば) (umeboshi baba): (derogatory) a wrinkly elderly woman

Descendants
Descendants

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 4-385-13905-9
  3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
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