開け胡麻

Japanese

Kanji in this term
開 胡 麻
ひら
Grade: 3 		ご
Jinmeiyō 		ま
Grade: S
kun'yomi on'yomi
Alternative spelling
開けゴマ

Etymology

From 開け (hirake, imperative form of 開く (hiraku, “to open”)) +‎ 胡麻 (goma, “sesame”), calque of French sésame, ouvre-toi in Antoine Galland's version of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in One Thousand and One Nights, possibly based on an oral Arabic source.

Phrase

開(ひら)け胡(ご)麻(ま) or 開(ひら)け胡麻(ゴマ) • (hirake goma) 

  1. open sesame!
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