Japanese DictionaryDefinition of 培/meaning-of-いのしし
- (n) negative (static) charge; negative electric charge; (sometimes called "negative electricity")
- (n) lion
眠れる獅子は起こすな。
Let sleeping dogs lie. - left-hand guardian dog at a Shinto shrine
- (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
- (n) flesh
その動物は肉を常食としている。
That animal feeds on flesh. - meat
その魚と肉を冷凍してください。
Please freeze the fish and meat. - the physical body (as opposed to the spirit)
肉によって生まれたものは肉です。御霊によって生まれたものは霊です。
Flesh gives birth to flesh, Spirit gives birth to Spirit. - thickness
- ink pad
- (n) urine
いつもより尿の回数が多いです。
I urinate more often than usual.
- (prt) indicates possessive
- nominalizes verbs and adjectives
- substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases
- (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion
- (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis
- (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
- (n) father
私の父は大の旅行ずきです。
My father is a great traveler.
- (n) twelfth sign of the Chinese zodiac (The Boar, 9pm-11pm, north-northwest, October)
- (n) sleep
私たちは子供にひとり寝の習慣をつけた。
We accustomed our children to sleeping alone.
- (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
- (n) fifty
そのバスには五十人の乗客がいた。
There were fifty passengers on board the bus.
- (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)
- (n) Okinawan lion (or lion dog) statues, placed as talisman against evil at entrances and on roofs
- (n) feelings; thoughts
あなたのご親切に対し深く感謝の意を表します。
I wish to express my deep appreciation for your kindness. - meaning
私は彼らの沈黙を承諾の意にとった。
I interpreted their silence as consent.
- (n) locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; (feeling of hopelessness); being in a bind
- (n) beast (esp. one used for its meat, such as a boar or a deer)
私たちはしかの通ったあとをたどった。
We followed the deer's tracks. - hunting (of animals such as boar, deer, etc.)
- (n) miniature Chusan palm (Trachycarpus wagnerianus); (poss. Trachycarpus fortunei)
- (n) Gokturks; Sky Turks; Tujue; (powerful Turkic confederation from medieval Inner Asia)