真夜中
Japanese
kanjitab
Definitions
- midnight
Etymology
Compound from Japanese 真 (true, real, straight, genuine, name character, salt) + Japanese 夜 (night, nighttime)+ Japanese 中 (middle, in, center, in the process of, throughout, inside, partway along, medium, under, mid-, currently, within, in between, all over, centerthroughout, inner, during, in the middle of), 真 (true, real, straight, genuine, name character, salt) + Japanese 夜中 (middle of the night).
Origin
Japanese
夜中
Gloss
middle of the night
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- 一千一夜物語 Japanese
- 中 Japanese
- 中折れ Japanese
- 中村 Japanese
- 中東 Japanese
- 中欧 Japanese
- 中高型 Japanese
- 千夜一夜物語 Japanese
- 夜 Japanese
- 夜中 Japanese
- 夜伽 Japanese
- 夜咲睡蓮 Japanese
- 夜船 Japanese
- 夜蛾 Japanese
- 夜逃げ Japanese
- 夜雨 Japanese
- 夜鳴き鶯 Japanese
- 夜鷹 Japanese
- 心中 Japanese
- 日中 Japanese
- 最中 Japanese
- 月夜 Japanese
- 本真 Japanese
- 梨 Japanese
- 田舎 Japanese
- 真 Japanese
- 真名 Japanese
- 真土 Japanese
- 真塩 Japanese
- 真物 Japanese
- 真者 Japanese
- 真雁 Japanese
- 真面 Japanese
- 真魚 Japanese
- 真鶸 Japanese
- 縦中横 Japanese
- 道中 Japanese
- *yoru Proto-Japonic