アルゼンチン

Japanese

Alternative spellings
亜爾然丁 (obsolete)
亜国 (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed either from French Argentine, or from the first half of English Argentine Republic.[1][2][3]

Early transcriptions of foreign words may have used (ze) for /(d)ʒe/ more often. Compare also different transcriptions of the word angel: エンゼル (enzeru) and エンジェル (enjeru); or ロサンゼルス (Rosanzerusu, Los Angeles).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ルゼンチン [àrúzéꜜǹchìǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])[4][5]
  • IPA(key): [a̠ɾɯ̟ᵝzẽ̞ɲ̟t͡ɕĩɴ]

Proper noun

アルゼンチン • (Aruzenchin) 

  1. Argentina (a country in South America)

Synonyms

See also

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  4. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  5. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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