化け物

Japanese

Kanji in this term
化	物
ば Grade: 3	もの Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
化物化けもの

Alternative forms

(someone of prodigious ability): (informal) ばけもん (bakemon)

Etymology

Compound of 化け (bake, “transforming”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 化ける bakeru, “take a different form, disguise oneself”) +‎ 物 (mono, “thing”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ばけもの [bàkémóꜜnò] (Nakadaka – [3])^[3]^[2]
(Tokyo) ばけもの [bàkémónóꜜ] (Odaka – [4])^[2]
IPA^(key): [ba̠ke̞mo̞no̞]

Noun

化(ば)け物(もの) • (bakemono)

a monster, a ghost, a phantom
化(ば)け物(もの)のような茄子(なす)
bakemono no yō na nasu
a monstrous eggplant, a monster of an eggplant
- 1999 March 27, “ラーバス [Larvas]”, in Vol.2, Konami:
  
  素(す)早(ばや)く動(うご)く鳥(とり)のばけもの。細(ほそ)く長(なが)い腕(うで)をからませ絞(し)めあげる。
  Subayaku ugoku tori no bakemono. Hosoku nagai ude o karamase shimeageru.
  A nimble avian monster who will strangle you with his long thin arms.
someone of prodigious ability; monster; beast
トランプにかけては化(ば)け物(もの)だ。
Toranpu ni kakete wa bakemono da.
He's a monster / a whiz at cards.

Synonyms

(monster): お化(ば)け (obake), 妖怪(ようかい) (yōkai)

Derived terms

化(ば)け物(もの)絵(え) (bakemono e): a picture of a ghost or monster
化(ば)け物(もの)屋(や)敷(しき) (bakemono yashiki): haunted house
化(ば)け物(もの)蝋(ろう)燭(そく) (bakemono rōsoku): a kind of shadow theater or play

References

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Kitahara, Yasuo, editor (2002), 明鏡国語辞典 [Meikyō Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN

[KDJ-1] Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

[DJR-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[NHK-3] NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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