轆轤

轆轤

1. well pulley
2. windlass; winch
3. potter's wheel

• (well pulley): (Hokkien) 加轆仔／加辘仔

From Chinese, most likely /luwklo/.

• (Tokyo) ろくろ [ròkúró] (Heiban – [0])^[1][2][3]
• (Tokyo) ろくろ [ròkúróꜜ] (Odaka – [3])^[1][2][3]
• (Tokyo) ろくろ [róꜜkùrò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2][3]
• IPA^(key): [ɾo̞kɯ̟ɾo̞]

轆(ろく)轤(ろ) • (rokuro) 

1. a potter's wheel

   Synonym: 轆轤台 (rokurodai)

   • 「２基の轆轤を、土の種類によって使い分けています。」[1]
2. a winch used to pull heavy objects

   Synonym: 神楽桟 (kagurasan)

3. (nautical) a capstan of a traditional Japanese ship, found on the port and starboard of the 舮櫓 (tomo yagura, “aftcastle or aft cabin”)

   Synonym: 車地 (shachi)

4. short for 轆轤鉋 (rokuro-gana, “a lathe; a rotating device used for wood work”)
   • 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 5, page 79:

     轆轤 四聲字苑云轆轤 鹿盧二音　俗六路 圓轉機也

     Lathe The Four Tone Character Garden calls it a lathe two rokuru for the two sounds, commonly rokuro, it is a device for turning round objects.

   • 1603, Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Nippo Jisho) [Vocabulary of the Language of Japan] (in Portuguese), Nagasaki, page 539:

     Rocuro. ロクロ (轆轤) 轆轤師の使う轆轤. Rocuroni caqete fiqu. (轆轤にかけて挽く) 轆轤で細工する.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. a well pulley
6. a runner; the part of an umbrella that holds all stretchers and facilitates opening and closing
   • 1603, Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Nippo Jisho) [Vocabulary of the Language of Japan] (in Portuguese), Nagasaki, page 539:

     Rocuro. ロクロ (轆轤) 日傘の内側にある轆轤.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Doi, Tadao (1603–1604) Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1980, →ISBN.
• Minamoto, Shitagō with Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.