"komusubi" meaning in English

See komusubi in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: komusubi [plural], komusubis [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 小結 (komusubi). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ja|小結|tr=komusubi}} Japanese 小結 (komusubi) Head templates: {{en-noun|*|+}} komusubi (plural komusubi or komusubis)
  1. (sumo) A sumo wrestler of the lowest sanyaku rank, below sekiwake and above maegashira.

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "小結",
      "小結#Japanese"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ja",
        "3": "小結",
        "tr": "komusubi"
      },
      "expansion": "Japanese 小結 (komusubi)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Japanese 小結 (komusubi).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "komusubi",
      "links": [
        [
          "komusubi",
          "w:komusubi"
        ],
        [
          "komusubi",
          "komusubi"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "komusubis",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "komusubi (plural komusubi or komusubis)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sumo",
          "orig": "en:Sumo",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              43,
              51
            ],
            [
              168,
              176
            ],
            [
              168,
              177
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2009, John Fairbairn, “Prelude to the Match”, in Kamakura, 2nd edition (2011), Richmond, Va.: Slate & Shell, →ISBN, page 25, column 2:",
          "text": "[…] Kitani and Go were still only like the komusubi juniors in sumo program rankings. […] In fact, their first ten-game match was described merely as the battle of the komusubis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              63,
              71
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2018 March 15, “Kakuryu makes most of second opportunity against Takarafuji”, in Japan Times, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2018:",
          "text": "Sekiwake Tochinoshin (3-2) picked up a much-needed win against komusubi Chiyotairyu (1-4) after suffering his second loss the previous day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sumo wrestler of the lowest sanyaku rank, below sekiwake and above maegashira."
      ],
      "id": "en-komusubi-en-noun-k0ppQQln",
      "links": [
        [
          "sumo",
          "sumo"
        ],
        [
          "sumo",
          "sumo"
        ],
        [
          "wrestler",
          "wrestler"
        ],
        [
          "sanyaku",
          "sanyaku"
        ],
        [
          "rank",
          "rank"
        ],
        [
          "sekiwake",
          "sekiwake"
        ],
        [
          "maegashira",
          "maegashira"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sumo) A sumo wrestler of the lowest sanyaku rank, below sekiwake and above maegashira."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "martial-arts",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "sports",
        "sumo",
        "war",
        "wrestling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "komusubi"
}
{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "小結",
      "小結#Japanese"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ja",
        "3": "小結",
        "tr": "komusubi"
      },
      "expansion": "Japanese 小結 (komusubi)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Japanese 小結 (komusubi).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "komusubi",
      "links": [
        [
          "komusubi",
          "w:komusubi"
        ],
        [
          "komusubi",
          "komusubi"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "komusubis",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "komusubi (plural komusubi or komusubis)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "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 terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Sumo"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              43,
              51
            ],
            [
              168,
              176
            ],
            [
              168,
              177
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2009, John Fairbairn, “Prelude to the Match”, in Kamakura, 2nd edition (2011), Richmond, Va.: Slate & Shell, →ISBN, page 25, column 2:",
          "text": "[…] Kitani and Go were still only like the komusubi juniors in sumo program rankings. […] In fact, their first ten-game match was described merely as the battle of the komusubis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              63,
              71
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2018 March 15, “Kakuryu makes most of second opportunity against Takarafuji”, in Japan Times, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2018:",
          "text": "Sekiwake Tochinoshin (3-2) picked up a much-needed win against komusubi Chiyotairyu (1-4) after suffering his second loss the previous day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sumo wrestler of the lowest sanyaku rank, below sekiwake and above maegashira."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sumo",
          "sumo"
        ],
        [
          "sumo",
          "sumo"
        ],
        [
          "wrestler",
          "wrestler"
        ],
        [
          "sanyaku",
          "sanyaku"
        ],
        [
          "rank",
          "rank"
        ],
        [
          "sekiwake",
          "sekiwake"
        ],
        [
          "maegashira",
          "maegashira"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sumo) A sumo wrestler of the lowest sanyaku rank, below sekiwake and above maegashira."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "martial-arts",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "sports",
        "sumo",
        "war",
        "wrestling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "komusubi"
}

Download raw JSONL data for komusubi meaning in English (2.3kB)

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/match_links_to_form",
  "msg": "form='komusubi' has many different link candidates `['w:komusubi', 'komusubi']`, which can't be disambiguated.",
  "path": [
    "komusubi"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "komusubi",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/match_links_to_form",
  "msg": "form='komusubi' has many different link candidates `['w:komusubi', 'komusubi']`, which can't be disambiguated.",
  "path": [
    "komusubi"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "komusubi",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/match_links_to_form",
  "msg": "form='komusubi' has many different link candidates `['w:komusubi', 'komusubi']`, which can't be disambiguated.",
  "path": [
    "komusubi"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "komusubi",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/match_links_to_form",
  "msg": "form='komusubi' has many different link candidates `['w:komusubi', 'komusubi']`, which can't be disambiguated.",
  "path": [
    "komusubi"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "komusubi",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/match_links_to_form",
  "msg": "form='komusubi' has many different link candidates `['w:komusubi', 'komusubi']`, which can't be disambiguated.",
  "path": [
    "komusubi"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "komusubi",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/match_links_to_form",
  "msg": "form='komusubi' has many different link candidates `['w:komusubi', 'komusubi']`, which can't be disambiguated.",
  "path": [
    "komusubi"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "komusubi",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). 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.