N2788/1725

坊ぼうさん

familiar languagehonorific languagenounnoun (generic)

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ぼうさん

Meanings

Buddhist priest, monk
boy

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Example sentences

あの坊ぼうさんは毎朝まいあさお経きょうを唱となえている。

That Buddhist priest chants sutras every morning.

村むらの坊ぼうさんに相談そうだんしてみたらどうですか。

Why don't you try consulting the village Buddhist priest?

その坊ぼうさんは厳きびしい修行しゅぎょうを何年なんねんも続つづけてきたそうだ。

I heard that the Buddhist monk has continued rigorous training for many years.

近所きんじょの坊ぼうさんが葬儀そうぎでお経きょうを読よんでくれた。

The local Buddhist priest read the sutras at the funeral.

坊ぼうさんというのは、俗世間ぞくせけんの欲望よくぼうを断たち切きった人々ひとびとのことを指さす言葉ことばだと彼女かのじょは説明せつめいした。

She explained that 'bousan' is a word referring to people who have severed themselves from the worldly desires of secular life.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)