開け胡麻

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ひら
Grade: 3

Jinmeiyō

Grade: S
yutōyomi

Alternative forms

Etymology

From its use in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, translating French Sésame, ouvre-toi in Antoine Galland's version of the Ali Baba story in the One Thousand and One Nights, possibly based on an oral Arabic source.

Phrase

開け胡麻 (hiragana ひらけごま, rōmaji hirakegoma)

  1. open sesame!
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