海蛍

Japanese

Kanji in this term
海 蛍
うみ
Grade: 2 		ほたる
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
海螢 (kyūjitai)
海ほたる

Etymology

From 海(うみ) (umi, “sea”) + 蛍(ほたる) (hotaru, “firefly”).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) うみほたる [ùmíhóꜜtàrù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɯ̟mʲiho̞ta̠ɾɯ̟]

Noun

海(うみ)蛍(ほたる) or 海蛍(ウミホタル) • (umihotaru) 

  1. sea-firefly, Vargula hilgendorfii, a small bioluminescent ostracod found in Japan

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).

Descendants

  • → English: sea-firefly (calque)

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.