なわ

Japanese

Etymology
Alternative spelling
縄

From Old Japanese. Derived from verb 綯う (nau, “to plait or twist together into twine or line”).[1]

Pronunciation

Module error: The module returned a nil value. It is supposed to return an export table.

Noun

なわ • (nawa) ←なは (nafa)?

  1. a rope, a flexible, heavy cord of tightly intertwined hemp or other fiber

Coordinate terms

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