母艦

See also: 母舰

Chinese
female; mother warship
trad. (母艦) 母 艦
simp. (母舰) 母 舰

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 母 (ぼ)艦 (かん) (bokan, “mothership”)

Pronunciation

Noun

母艦

  1. mother ship

Synonyms

Derived terms

Japanese
Kanji in this term
母 艦
ぼ
Grade: 2		 かん
Grade: S
on’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 母 (bo, “mother”) +‎ 艦 (kan, “warship”), calque of English mother ship. First used during the Meiji period (1868–1912).

Pronunciation

Noun

母艦 (hiragana ぼかん, rōmaji bokan)

  1. a mother ship, a tender (watercraft)
    1894, 大本營海軍參謀部 (Dai Hon'ei Kaigun Sanbō-bu, “Imperial HQ, Navy Staff Section”), 聯合艦隊出征報告 (Rengō Kantai Shussei Hōkoku, “Report on Combined Fleet Campaigns”)‎, page 183:
    「本 (ホン)隊 (タイ)ノ六 (ロク)隻 (セキ)第 (ダイ)二 (ニ)遊 (イウ)撃 (ゲキ)隊 (タイ)ノ六 (ロク)隻 (セキ)本 (ホン)隊 (タイ)附 (フ)属 (ゾク)八 (ヤ)重 (へ)山 (ヤマ)、天 (アマ)城 (ギ)ノ二 (ニ)艦 (カン)（磐 (イワ)城 (キ)ハ本 (ホン)隊 (タイ)ト行 (ユキ)違 (チガヒ)ニ淺 (セン)水 (スイ)灣 (ワン)ニ赴 (オモム)ケルモノ、如 (ゴト)シ近江 (アフミ)丸 (マル)ハ本 (ホン)日 (ジツ)佐 (サ)世 (セ)保 (ボ)ヨリ到 (タウ)着 (チャク)ノ見 (ミ)込 (コミ)）外 (ガイ)ニ第 (ダイ)一 (イチ)遊 (イウ)撃 (ゲキ)隊 (タイ)ノ秋 (アキ)津 (ツ)洲 (シマ)、水雷艇隊 (スイライテイタイ)ノ母艦 (ボカン)山 (ヤマ)城 (シロ)丸 (マル)」
    “Hontai no rokuseki daini yūgekitai no rokuseki hontai fuzoku Yaeyama, Amagi no nikan (Iwaki wa hontai to yukichigai ni Sensui-wan ni omomukeru mono, gotoshi Ōmi-maru wa honjitsu Sasebo yori tōchaku no mikomi) gai ni daiichi yūgekitai no Akitsushima, suiraitei-tai no bokan Yamashiro-maru”
    “Aside from two warships belonging to Yaeyama and Amagi, attached to six ships of the second floating column, six ships of the main force (the Iwaki to miss the main force and head to Repulse Bay, likewise the Ōmi-maru expected to arrive from Sasebo today), the first floating column's Akitsushima and the torpedo-boat squad mothership [tender] Yamashiro-maru”
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  2. Short for 航空母艦 (kōkū bokan, “aircraft carrier”).

Descendants

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  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 978-4-14-011112-3
  3. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13143-0
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