弁柄

Japanese
Kanji in this term
弁 柄
べん
Grade: 5		 がら
Grade: S
goon kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
紅殻

Etymology

Borrowing of Dutch Bengala (“Bengal”),[1][2][3][4] or of Portuguese Bengala (“Bengal”),[5] as both the cloth and the red iron oxide were imported from Bengal in the Edo period.[5][6]

Doublet of ベンガル (Bengaru, “Bengal”). The kanji spelling is an example of phonetic ateji (当て字).

First cited to a text from 1693.[5]

Pronunciation

Noun

弁(べん)柄(がら) • (bengara) 

  1. [from 1825] red iron oxide
  2. [from 1693] a kind of cloth first imported from Bengal during the Edo period, made using silk for the warp threads and cotton for the weft
    Synonym: 弁柄縞 (bengara-jima)

Derived terms

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  3. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  5. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  6. “べんがら”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984
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