"うろつく" meaning in Japanese

See うろつく in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: [ɯ̟ɾo̞t͡sɨ̥kɯ̟]
Etymology: From うろ (uro, a 擬態語 (gitaigo, “ideophone”) also reduplicated to form the adverb うろうろ (urouro)) + つく (-tsuku). Etymology templates: {{ja-r|うろ.うろ}} うろうろ (urouro), {{ja-compound|うろ||-つく||pos1=a <i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">擬態語</i> (gitaigo, “ideophone”) also reduplicated to form the adverb うろうろ (<span class="mention-tr tr">urouro</span>)|t2=}} うろ (uro, a 擬態語 (gitaigo, “ideophone”) also reduplicated to form the adverb うろうろ (urouro)) + つく (-tsuku) Head templates: {{ja-verb|tr=intrans|type=1}} うろつく • (urotsuku) intransitive godan (stem うろつき (urotsuki), past うろついた (urotsuita)) Forms: urotsuku [romanization], うろつき [stem], うろついた [past], no-table-tags [table-tags], うろつか [error-unrecognized-form], urotsuka [error-unrecognized-form], うろつき [error-unrecognized-form], urotsuki [error-unrecognized-form], うろつく [error-unrecognized-form], urotsuku [error-unrecognized-form], うろつけ [error-unrecognized-form], urotsuke [error-unrecognized-form], うろつかれる [passive], urotsukareru [passive], うろつかせる [causative], うろつかす [causative], urotsukaseru [causative], urotsukasu [causative], うろつける [potential], urotsukeru [potential], うろつこう [volitional], urotsukō [volitional], うろつかない [negative], urotsukanai [negative], うろつかず [continuative, negative], urotsukazu [continuative, negative], うろつきます [formal], urotsukimasu [formal], うろついた [perfective], urotsuita [perfective], うろついて [conjunctive], urotsuite [conjunctive], うろつけば [conditional, hypothetical], urotsukeba [conditional, hypothetical]
  1. to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander aimlessly; to knock around; to hang around Synonyms: 彷徨う, 彷徨する, うろうろする, ちょろちょろする
    Sense id: en-うろつく-ja-verb-nGpwAlSW Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku, Japanese links with manual fragments, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms suffixed with つく, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 87 13 Disambiguation of Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku: 54 46 Disambiguation of Japanese links with manual fragments: 79 21 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 82 18 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 83 17 Disambiguation of Japanese terms suffixed with つく: 81 19 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 83 17 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 90 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 93 7
  2. to be at a loss, to be confused from not knowing what to do
    Sense id: en-うろつく-ja-verb-h2MCiPdz Categories (other): Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku Disambiguation of Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku: 54 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: うろうろ (urouro), 彷徨う (samayou) (ruby: 彷徨(さまよ)), 彷徨する (hōkō suru) (ruby: 彷(ほう), 徨(こう))

Alternative forms

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      "form": "うろつかない",
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Download raw JSONL data for うろつく meaning in Japanese (4.9kB)

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  "title": "うろつく",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese 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.