胸当て
Japanese
edit| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 胸 | 当 |
| むな Grade: 6 |
あ Grade: 2 |
| kun'yomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 胸當て (kyūjitai) |
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 胸 | 当 |
| むね Grade: 6 |
あ Grade: 2 |
| kun'yomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 胸當て (kyūjitai) |
Etymology
editCompound of 胸 (mune, “chest”) + 当て (ate, “placing or applying one thing to another”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 当てる (ateru, “to place or apply one thing to another”)), literally meaning "thing placed or applied to the chest".[1][2][3] Attested from 1603 in the Nippo Jisho.[1]
Sometimes also encountered with a vowel shift, as munaate.[1][2] This reading is attested slightly earlier, from 1597,[1] and reflects the older muna reading for 胸 that is only found in older compounds.
Pronunciation
edit- (Tokyo) むねあて [mùnéáté] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
- (Tokyo) むねあて [mùnéátéꜜ] (Odaka – [4])[2][3]
- (Tokyo) むねあて [mùnéáꜜtè] (Nakadaka – [3])[3]
- IPA(key): [mɯ̟ne̞a̠te̞]
- (Tokyo) むなあて [mùnááté] (Heiban – [0])[2]
- (Tokyo) むなあて [mùnáátéꜜ] (Odaka – [4])[2]
- IPA(key): [mɯ̟na̠ːte̞]
Noun
edit胸当て or 胸当て • (muneate or munaate)
- western-style armor for the chest: a breastplate
- Synonym: 胸甲 (kyōkō)
- a chest protector used in traditional Japanese firefighting
- (by extension) a cloth bib or chest covering worn as protection from the sun by travelers or messengers, or as protection from food and spills by children or workers
- (fashion) the front portion of an apron, jumper dress, or overalls that extends above the waist and covers the front of the body
- (archery) a plastron, a chestguard, used in 弓道 (kyūdō, “traditional Japanese archery”) to protect the chest from the bowstring (more commonly, but not exclusively, used by women)
- a guess, an estimate, a conjecture
Usage notes
editThe breastplate sense is specific to western-style armor. This term is not used for Japanese armor, where instead the portion covering the torso is called the 胴 (dō).
See also
edit- 鎧 (yoroi, “armor”)
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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- Japanese terms spelled with 胸 read as むな
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