See amigurumi in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ja",
"3": "編み包み",
"tr": "amigurumi"
},
"expansion": "Japanese 編み包み (amigurumi)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "編む",
"3": "縫い包み",
"nocap": "1",
"nocat": "1",
"t1": "to knit",
"t2": "stuffed toy",
"tr1": "amu",
"tr2": "nuigurumi"
},
"expansion": "blend of 編む (amu, “to knit”) + 縫い包み (nuigurumi, “stuffed toy”)",
"name": "blend"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Japanese 編み包み (amigurumi), a blend of 編む (amu, “to knit”) + 縫い包み (nuigurumi, “stuffed toy”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "amigurumi",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~",
"2": "amigurumi"
},
"expansion": "amigurumi (countable and uncountable, plural amigurumi)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "soft toy"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ami‧gu‧ru‧mi"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Knitting",
"orig": "en:Knitting",
"parents": [
"Crafts",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "67 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "45 55",
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Japan",
"orig": "en:Japan",
"parents": [
"Asia",
"Earth",
"Eurasia",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Toys",
"orig": "en:Toys",
"parents": [
"Recreation",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2014 October 28, Christopher Langley, “Artbound: Jael Hoffmann: High Desert Sculptor of Internal Landscapes”, in KCET, archived from the original on 2018-11-02:",
"text": "Noa has been mostly homeschooled, and is poised to graduate high school in this \"severely\" rural area. She has a self-described \"yarn addiction\" (does astounding lace work, Amigurumi, and other yarn art), and wants to learn how to work in glass, after graduation.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Hansi Singh, “Techniques: Gauge/Yarn”, in Knitted Amigurumi Vegetables: Basic Techniques Plus 5 Veggies, Minneapolis, Minn.: Creative Publishing International, →ISBN, page 31:",
"text": "In amigurumi knitting, gauge sense is a little bit different from what it is in most other types of knitting. Since amigurumi doesn't really need to fit anybody, you're not obligated to work at any particular gauge. However, most amigurumi figures are stuffed with fiberfill. If you don't want this fluffy white stuff poking out of your creation, it's very important that you knit at a gauge that is tight for the weight of yarn that you're using.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017 May 3, Alyson Ward, “Adorable alert: A tiny yarn Sherlock Holmes or Huck Finn: New book features cute critters from Houston’s ‘crochet ninja’”, in Houston Chronicle, Houston, Tex., archived from the original on 2017-08-14:",
"text": "She started crocheting six years ago \"completely out of boredom,\" watching YouTube videos to pick up the technique. Almost immediately, she started making amigurumi figures, Japanese-inspired stuffed dolls and action figures.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys, typically creatures having oversized heads."
],
"id": "en-amigurumi-en-noun-btDOBtpv",
"links": [
[
"knitting",
"knitting#Noun"
],
[
"Japanese",
"Japanese"
],
[
"art",
"art"
],
[
"crocheting",
"crochet#Verb"
],
[
"knitting",
"knit#Verb"
],
[
"stuffed",
"stuffed#Adjective"
],
[
"yarn",
"yarn"
],
[
"toys",
"toy#Noun"
],
[
"creature",
"creature"
],
[
"oversized",
"oversized#Adjective"
],
[
"heads",
"head#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable, knitting) The Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys, typically creatures having oversized heads."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"knitting",
"manufacturing",
"textiles"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "75 25",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys",
"word": "اميجورومي"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 25",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys",
"word": "אמיגורומי"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 25",
"alt": "あみぐるみ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "amigurumi",
"sense": "Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys",
"word": "編み包み"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 25",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "amigurúmi",
"sense": "Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys",
"word": "амигуру́ми"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 25",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys",
"word": "ตุ๊กตาหมีถักไหมพรม"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 25",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "amigurumi",
"sense": "Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys",
"word": "аміґурумі"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Knitting",
"orig": "en:Knitting",
"parents": [
"Crafts",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "19 81",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 81",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 76",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 85",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "25 75",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "28 72",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 80",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "26 74",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Thai translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 76",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "45 55",
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Japan",
"orig": "en:Japan",
"parents": [
"Asia",
"Earth",
"Eurasia",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Toys",
"orig": "en:Toys",
"parents": [
"Recreation",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008 April 20, Rachelle Unreich, “The play’s the thing”, in The Age, Melbourne, Vic., archived from the original on 2018-11-02:",
"text": "Pip Lincolne, owner of Meet Me At Mike's in Fitzroy, stocks cutesy, Japanese-style knitted or crochet toys, known as amigurumi. \"When we started Mike's, we wanted to sell the things that we loved, which happened to be things with a childlike or nostalgic theme through them,\" she says. \"We wanted to stock handmade items and discovered the Japanese craft movement a few months after.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Hansi Singh, “Techniques”, in Amigurumi Knits: Patterns for 20 Cute Mini Knits, Minneapolis, Minn.: Creative Publishing International, →ISBN, page 18:",
"text": "And since most amigurumi tends to be on the small side, you will use these small diameter circular knitting techniques frequently.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2018 April 18, Griffin Swartzell, “Mary Nguyen crochets advanced stitching techniques into adorable amigurumi”, in Colorado Springs Independent, Colorado Springs, Colo., archived from the original on 2018-04-18:",
"text": "Some days after April’s First Friday festivities, I noticed on the desk of a colleague an adorable crocheted fish doll, one Fred by name. […] Fred, like many of [Mary] Nguyen’s pieces, is an amigurumi – petite knitted/crocheted stuffed animals, popularized in Japan over the course of the 20th century before websites like Etsy, Pinterest and Ravelry exposed Western audiences to them in the mid-2000s.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Such a stuffed toy crocheted or knitted from yarn."
],
"id": "en-amigurumi-en-noun-QRcktm43",
"links": [
[
"knitting",
"knitting#Noun"
],
[
"stuffed toy",
"stuffed toy"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable, knitting) Such a stuffed toy crocheted or knitted from yarn."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"knitting",
"manufacturing",
"textiles"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "14 86",
"alt": "あみぐるみ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "amigurumi",
"sense": "stuffed toy crocheted or knitted from yarn",
"word": "編み包み"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɑːmɪˈɡuːɹuːmɪ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-amigurumi.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/92/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-amigurumi.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-amigurumi.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/92/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-amigurumi.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-amigurumi.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ɑmiˈɡuɹumi/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "amigurumi"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English indeclinable nouns",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English terms borrowed from Japanese",
"English terms derived from Japanese",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Arabic translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Thai translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"en:Japan",
"en:Toys"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ja",
"3": "編み包み",
"tr": "amigurumi"
},
"expansion": "Japanese 編み包み (amigurumi)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "編む",
"3": "縫い包み",
"nocap": "1",
"nocat": "1",
"t1": "to knit",
"t2": "stuffed toy",
"tr1": "amu",
"tr2": "nuigurumi"
},
"expansion": "blend of 編む (amu, “to knit”) + 縫い包み (nuigurumi, “stuffed toy”)",
"name": "blend"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Japanese 編み包み (amigurumi), a blend of 編む (amu, “to knit”) + 縫い包み (nuigurumi, “stuffed toy”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "amigurumi",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~",
"2": "amigurumi"
},
"expansion": "amigurumi (countable and uncountable, plural amigurumi)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"word": "soft toy"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ami‧gu‧ru‧mi"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"en:Knitting"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2014 October 28, Christopher Langley, “Artbound: Jael Hoffmann: High Desert Sculptor of Internal Landscapes”, in KCET, archived from the original on 2018-11-02:",
"text": "Noa has been mostly homeschooled, and is poised to graduate high school in this \"severely\" rural area. She has a self-described \"yarn addiction\" (does astounding lace work, Amigurumi, and other yarn art), and wants to learn how to work in glass, after graduation.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Hansi Singh, “Techniques: Gauge/Yarn”, in Knitted Amigurumi Vegetables: Basic Techniques Plus 5 Veggies, Minneapolis, Minn.: Creative Publishing International, →ISBN, page 31:",
"text": "In amigurumi knitting, gauge sense is a little bit different from what it is in most other types of knitting. Since amigurumi doesn't really need to fit anybody, you're not obligated to work at any particular gauge. However, most amigurumi figures are stuffed with fiberfill. If you don't want this fluffy white stuff poking out of your creation, it's very important that you knit at a gauge that is tight for the weight of yarn that you're using.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017 May 3, Alyson Ward, “Adorable alert: A tiny yarn Sherlock Holmes or Huck Finn: New book features cute critters from Houston’s ‘crochet ninja’”, in Houston Chronicle, Houston, Tex., archived from the original on 2017-08-14:",
"text": "She started crocheting six years ago \"completely out of boredom,\" watching YouTube videos to pick up the technique. Almost immediately, she started making amigurumi figures, Japanese-inspired stuffed dolls and action figures.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys, typically creatures having oversized heads."
],
"links": [
[
"knitting",
"knitting#Noun"
],
[
"Japanese",
"Japanese"
],
[
"art",
"art"
],
[
"crocheting",
"crochet#Verb"
],
[
"knitting",
"knit#Verb"
],
[
"stuffed",
"stuffed#Adjective"
],
[
"yarn",
"yarn"
],
[
"toys",
"toy#Noun"
],
[
"creature",
"creature"
],
[
"oversized",
"oversized#Adjective"
],
[
"heads",
"head#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable, knitting) The Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys, typically creatures having oversized heads."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"knitting",
"manufacturing",
"textiles"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Knitting"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008 April 20, Rachelle Unreich, “The play’s the thing”, in The Age, Melbourne, Vic., archived from the original on 2018-11-02:",
"text": "Pip Lincolne, owner of Meet Me At Mike's in Fitzroy, stocks cutesy, Japanese-style knitted or crochet toys, known as amigurumi. \"When we started Mike's, we wanted to sell the things that we loved, which happened to be things with a childlike or nostalgic theme through them,\" she says. \"We wanted to stock handmade items and discovered the Japanese craft movement a few months after.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Hansi Singh, “Techniques”, in Amigurumi Knits: Patterns for 20 Cute Mini Knits, Minneapolis, Minn.: Creative Publishing International, →ISBN, page 18:",
"text": "And since most amigurumi tends to be on the small side, you will use these small diameter circular knitting techniques frequently.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2018 April 18, Griffin Swartzell, “Mary Nguyen crochets advanced stitching techniques into adorable amigurumi”, in Colorado Springs Independent, Colorado Springs, Colo., archived from the original on 2018-04-18:",
"text": "Some days after April’s First Friday festivities, I noticed on the desk of a colleague an adorable crocheted fish doll, one Fred by name. […] Fred, like many of [Mary] Nguyen’s pieces, is an amigurumi – petite knitted/crocheted stuffed animals, popularized in Japan over the course of the 20th century before websites like Etsy, Pinterest and Ravelry exposed Western audiences to them in the mid-2000s.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Such a stuffed toy crocheted or knitted from yarn."
],
"links": [
[
"knitting",
"knitting#Noun"
],
[
"stuffed toy",
"stuffed toy"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable, knitting) Such a stuffed toy crocheted or knitted from yarn."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"knitting",
"manufacturing",
"textiles"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɑːmɪˈɡuːɹuːmɪ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-amigurumi.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/92/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-amigurumi.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-amigurumi.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/92/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-amigurumi.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-amigurumi.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ɑmiˈɡuɹumi/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys",
"word": "اميجورومي"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys",
"word": "אמיגורומי"
},
{
"alt": "あみぐるみ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "amigurumi",
"sense": "Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys",
"word": "編み包み"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "amigurúmi",
"sense": "Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys",
"word": "амигуру́ми"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys",
"word": "ตุ๊กตาหมีถักไหมพรม"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "amigurumi",
"sense": "Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys",
"word": "аміґурумі"
},
{
"alt": "あみぐるみ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "amigurumi",
"sense": "stuffed toy crocheted or knitted from yarn",
"word": "編み包み"
}
],
"word": "amigurumi"
}
Download raw JSONL data for amigurumi meaning in English (7.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.