鼾掻

Japanese
Kanji in this term
鼾 掻
くつち
Hyōgaiji		 か(き)
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 鼾 (kutsuchi, “snoring; epilepsy”) +‎ 掻き (kaki, “making something manifest”), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 掻く (kaku, “to scratch; to make manifest”).[1]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms
  • 鼾掻き

Noun

鼾掻 (hiragana くつちかき, rōmaji kutsuchikaki)

  1. (rare, obsolete) snoring
  2. (rare, obsolete) an epileptic, a person who has epilepsy

Synonyms
  • (snoring):: 鼾 (いびき) (ibiki)
  • (epileptic):: 癲 (てん)癇 (かん)持 (も)ち (tenkanmochi), 癲癇持 (てんかんもち) (tenkanmochi)

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
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