Japanese DictionaryDefinition of 培/meaning-of-かんぬし
- (n) Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa)
- yellow catalpa (Catalpa ovata)
- printing block
- (n) negative (static) charge; negative electric charge; (sometimes called "negative electricity")
- (v5m, vt) to bite; to chew; to gnaw
「僕の歯はとっても弱くってりんごはかめません」と男の子は言いました。
"My teeth are too weak for apples," said the boy. - to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)
- to engage (of cogs, zippers, etc.); to mesh; to fit together
- to be involved in
- to fumble one's words (during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words
- to strongly confute; to argue down; to rebuke; to scold harshly
- (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
- (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
- (n) Halla okadai (species of eunicid worm used as fishing bait)
- (species of eunicid worm used as fishing bait)
- red mite (i.e. a chigger)
- (suf) history (e.g. of some country)
彼は、フランス史の学者だ。
He is a scholar of French history.
- (n) locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; (feeling of hopelessness); being in a bind
- (n) miniature Chusan palm (Trachycarpus wagnerianus); (poss. Trachycarpus fortunei)
- (suf) honorific suffix used after the name of a woman of equal or higher status
姉は私のズボンにアイロンをかけてくれる。
My sister presses my trousers.
- (n) Gokturks; Sky Turks; Tujue; (powerful Turkic confederation from medieval Inner Asia)
- (n) family affairs; family business
- steward in charge of the affairs of a samurai family (middle ages)