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蕃ばん語ご

Part of speech
noun

Reading

  • ばんご
    noun

Other forms

  • 蛮語

Meanings

  1. 1

    language spoken by the Emishi

    nounarchaism
  2. 2

    languages spoken by the nanban during the Edo Period (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch)

    nounarchaism
  3. 3

    foreign language

    nounarchaism

Related words

  • 蝦夷えみしEmishi; Ezo; non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo; Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands
  • 南蛮なんばんsouthern barbarians (name used in ancient China for non-Chinese ethnic groups to the south); South-East Asian countries (in the late-Muromachi and Edo periods); Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal and their South-East Asian colonies; late-Muromachi and Edo periods); foreign (of goods from South-East Asia and Western Europe); exotic (esp. in a Western European or South-East Asian style); chili pepper; nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions; thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm; in kabuki, dance, puppetry, etc.)

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