Japón
Central Huasteca Nahuatl
editProper noun
editJapón
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom either Portuguese Japão or directly from Early Manila Hokkien 日本 (Ji̍t-pún) as recorded in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626-1642), ultimately from Middle Chinese 日本 (ȵiɪt̚ puənX, literally “sun origin”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editJapón m or f by sense
- Japan (an island country in East Asia).
- (uncommon) a surname.
- 2007 July 23, Marta Franco, “La primera lista hallada de descendientes con apellido Japón es de 1646”, in 20 Minutos[1], archived from the original on 2021-02-11:
- Fue por una expedición de japoneses que vino a Coria en 1614, encabezada por el samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga. Varios miembros de esa delegación se afincaron en Coria y adoptaron la denominación Japón de apellido.
- It was due to an expedition of Japanese people who came to Coria in 1614, led by the samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga. Several members of that delegation settled in Coria and adopted the term Japan as their surname.
- 2016 June 28, Virginia López Enano, “El filón comercial del pueblo con 600 vecinos que se apellidan Japón”, in El País[2], archived from the original on 2022-12-14:
- Herederos de una expedición samurái del siglo XVII, en Coria del Río hay más de 600 vecinos que se apellidan Japón.
- Heirs of a XVIIth century samurai expedition, in Coria del Río there are more than 600 inhabitants with the surname Japan.
- 2023 August 27, Rafa Martí, “El caso único de los 700 vecinos con apellido Japón en un pueblo de España y con sake propio”, in El Español[3], archived from the original on 2023-08-28:
- Una búsqueda por la palabra “Japón” en el portal del INE donde se muestra la distribución territorial de los apellidos en España arroja un total de 1.924 resultados entre el primero y el segundo. La mayoría de estos Japón se encuentran en la provincia de Sevilla.
- A search for the word “Japan” in the INE portal which shows the territorial distribution of surnames in Spain yields a total of 1,924 results between the first and second. Most of these Japans are found in the province of Seville.
Usage notes
edit- The definite article is optional when referring to Japan's exonym in Spanish (i.e. el Japón).
Derived terms
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editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- “Japón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- Forebears (Spanish)
- Stefano Ravara, Mapa de Apellidos, 2016-2024
- Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum[4] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642, page 273 [As written] / 295 [PDF]; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum[5], Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN
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