念仏

Japanese
Kanji in this term
念 仏
ねん
Grade: 4		 ぶつ
Grade: 5
on’yomi

Etymology

From 念 (nen, “thoughts”) + 仏 (butsu, “Buddhism”)

Pronunciation

Noun

念仏 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 念佛, hiragana ねんぶつ, rōmaji nenbutsu)

  1. a prayer to Buddha

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 専修念仏 (senju nenbutsu): intently praying to Buddha
  • 念仏を唱える (nenbutsu o tonaeru): chant the name of Buddha
  • 念仏三昧 (nenbutsu zanmai): being deep in prayer
  • 念仏往生 (nenbutsu ōjō): passing away peacefully to be reborn in Paradise through invocation of Amitabha
  • 空念仏 (soranenbutsu): empty words
  • 馬の耳に念仏 (uma no mimi ni nenbutsu): you can't talk sense into a horse (This ancient Japanese saying focuses on the futility of trying to explain something to someone who is not at all able to understand, just as it is futile to try to teach the words of the Buddha to a horse.)

Verb

念仏する (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 念佛する, suru conjugation, hiragana ねんぶつする, rōmaji nenbutsu suru)

  1. to pray to Buddha

Conjugation
Conjugation of "念仏する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) 念仏し ねんぶつし nenbutsu shi
Continuative (連用形) 念仏し ねんぶつし nenbutsu shi
Terminal (終止形) 念仏する ねんぶつする nenbutsu suru
Attributive (連体形) 念仏する ねんぶつする nenbutsu suru
Hypothetical (仮定形) 念仏すれ ねんぶつすれ nenbutsu sure
Imperative (命令形) 念仏せよ¹
念仏しろ²		 ねんぶつせよ¹
ねんぶつしろ²		 nenbutsu seyo¹
nenbutsu shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 念仏される ねんぶつされる nenbutsu sareru
Causative 念仏させる
念仏さす		 ねんぶつさせる
ねんぶつさす		 nenbutsu saseru
nenbutsu sasu
Potential 念仏できる ねんぶつできる nenbutsu dekiru
Volitional 念仏しよう ねんぶつしよう nenbutsu shiyō
Negative 念仏しない ねんぶつしない nenbutsu shinai
Negative continuative 念仏せず ねんぶつせず nenbutsu sezu
Formal 念仏します ねんぶつします nenbutsu shimasu
Perfective 念仏した ねんぶつした nenbutsu shita
Conjunctive 念仏して ねんぶつして nenbutsu shite
Hypothetical conditional 念仏すれば ねんぶつすれば nenbutsu sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

References
  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
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