藻玉

Japanese
Kanji in this term
藻 玉
も
Grade: S		 たま > だま
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 藻 (mo, “alga”) +‎ 玉 (tama, “ball”), from the way that the seeds often wash ashore.[1] The tama changes to dama as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

藻玉 (hiragana もだま, katakana モダマ, rōmaji modama)

  1. St. Thomas bean

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