ムラサキ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ムラサキ – see the following entry.

【紫むらさき】S [noun] the purple or red-root gromwell, Lithospermum erythrorhizon [noun] the root of the murasaki used as a natural dye [noun] Short for 紫色 (murasaki-iro): the color purple [noun] (colloquial, from its purplish color) Synonym of 醤油 (shōyu): soy sauce [noun] (colloquial) a woman [noun] (archaic women's speech) Synonym of 鰯 (iwashi): a sardine, especially the Japanese pilchard, Sardinops sagax [noun] (historical, from being allowed to wear purple clothing) Synonym of 検校 (kengyō): the highest ranked blind court official [proper noun] (historical, colloquial, from 江戸紫 (Edo murasaki, “royal purple”), where the dye is traditionally made in) Edo, the de facto capital of the Tokugawa shogunate [proper noun] (colloquial) Short for 紫式部 (Murasaki Shikibu): Heian-period novelist and lady-in-waiting [proper noun] (colloquial, by extension) Synonym of 源氏物語 (Genji Monogatari): The Tale of Genji [proper noun] a female given name [proper noun] a surname

(This term, ムラサキ, is the katakana spelling of the above term.)