カピタン

Japanese

Alternative forms

甲比丹
カピテン (kapiten)

Etymology

From Portuguese capitão

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) カピタン [káꜜpìtàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
IPA^(key): [ka̠pʲitã̠ɴ]

Noun

カピタン (rōmaji kapitan)

a captain of a foreign ship from Europe to Japan in the Edo period
VOC Opperhoofden in Japan; a chief trader of the Dutch East India Company during the Edo Period
a kind of woven in stripes from #1

References

2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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