括る

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
くく
Grade: S
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese.

Alternative forms

  • (hang oneself): 縊る

Pronunciation

Verb

括る (transitive, godan conjugation, hiragana くくる, rōmaji kukuru)

  1. to bind, bundle, fasten, tie up
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 13, poem 3330), text here
      [...] 玉社 (たまこそ) () () () (たえぬれ) ()八十一 (くく) () () () [...] [Man'yōgana]
      [...]  (たま)こそば () ()えぬればくくりつつ [...] [Modern spelling]
      ...tama koso ba o no taenureba kukuritsutsu...
      (please add an English translation of this example)
    Synonyms: バインドする (baindo suru), 引っ括る (hikkukuru)
  2. to enclose
  3. to hang oneself
    Synonym: 縊死する (ishi suru)
  4. to consolidate, summarize
  5. to resolve
  6. to estimate
  7. to tie-dye
  8. to constrain, detain
    Synonym: 引き留める (hikitomeru, hikitodomeru)
Conjugation
Derived terms
Idioms
See also

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
くび
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Cognate with 縊る (kubiru, to strangle to death).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb 1

括る (transitive, godan conjugation, hiragana くびる, rōmaji kubiru)

  1. to hang with a string, for example
Conjugation

Verb 2

括る (intransitive, shimo nidan conjugation, hiragana くびる, rōmaji kubiru)

  1. (archaic) to be constricted
Derived terms
  •  (くび)れる (kubireru)

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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