仏教人生読本 – Vocabulary list

促うながす

to urge; to encourage; to press; to stimulate (e.g. growth); to hasten (e.g. development); to quicken

1

非ひ凡ぼん

extraordinary; uncommon; remarkable; unusual; rare; prodigious

1

十じゅう八はち

eighteen; 18

2

空くう

empty air; sky; shunyata (the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon); emptiness; air force; fruitlessness; meaninglessness

2

分ぶん析せき

analysis

4

信しん

honesty; sincerity; trust; reliance; (religious) faith; devotion

10

飛とび越こす

to leap over

1

体たい験けん者しゃ

experient; person who has experienced something

1

証しょう言げん

testimony; (verbal) evidence

1

白耳義ベルギー

Belgium

1

ブラッセル

Brussels (Belgium)

1

国こっ境きょう

border (between countries); national border

1

半はん日にち

half day

1

世せ界かい大たい戦せん

world war

1

激げき戦せん

fierce battle; hard-fought battle; hot contest; severe fight

1

遺い跡せき

(archeological) remains; ruins; relics

1

それでも

but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding

1

一いっ帯たい

whole area; whole region; stretch (of land); tract; belt

1

天てん然ねん

nature; spontaneity; natural airhead

1

平へい和わ

peace; harmony

2

青あお

blue; azure; green; green light (traffic); black (horse coat color); blue 5-point card; immature

1

麦むぎ

wheat; barley; oat (oats)

1

畑はたけ

field (for growing wheat, fruit, vegetables, etc.); cultivated land; field (of specialization); sphere; womb; birth

3

見み渡わたす限かぎり

as far as the eye can see

1

うち続つづく

to continue for a long time; to undergo a repeated series

1

風ふう車しゃ

windmill; wind turbine; pinwheel (toy); windmill (toy); Clematis patens (species of climbing plant)

1

ゆるゆる

very loose; slowly; leisurely

1

麦むぎ畑ばたけ

wheat field; barley field; cornfield

1

畦うね

ridge (in field); row of raised earth when planting crops; rib (cloth, mountains, sea); cord (e.g. corduroy)

1

ところどころ

here and there; in places

1

鄙ひなびる

to be rustic; to be countrified; to have a rural feel

1

基督キリスト

Christ

2

磔刑はりつけ

execution by tying a victim to a post and stabbing with spears; crucifixion

1

石せき像ぞう

stone statue

3

農のう夫ふ

(male) farmer; peasant; farmhand

8

手て作づくり

handmade; handcrafted; homemade; homegrown

1

花はな環わ

wreath; garland

1

供そなえる

to offer; to sacrifice; to dedicate

1

田舎いなか道みち

country road

1

石いし地じ蔵ぞう

stone statue of Jizō (often found along roads); taciturn person; person uninterested in romance

2

村むら

village

4

再さい臨りん

second coming; second advent

1

兆ちょう

10^12; 1,000,000,000,000; trillion; sign; omen; indication

2

詣まいり

visit (to a religious site, e.g. shrine, temple, grave)

1

教きょう会かい

church; congregation

1

お祭まつり

festival; feast; carnival; matsuri

1

騒さわぎ

uproar; disturbance

2

占うらない

fortune-telling; divination; fortune-teller; diviner

2

流は行やる

to be popular; to come into fashion; to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to flourish; to thrive

2

再さい婚こん

second marriage; remarriage

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Vocabulary list: 仏教人生読本