"終わり" meaning in Japanese

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Noun

IPA: [o̞ɰᵝa̠ɾʲi] Forms: 終わり [canonical] (ruby: ()), owari [romanization], wofari [romanization], をはり [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 終わる (owaru, “to end”, intransitive). Etymology templates: {{m|ja|連用形||continuative or stem form|tr=ren'yōkei}} 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”), {{m|ja|終わる||to end|pos=intransitive|tr=owaru}} 終わる (owaru, “to end”, intransitive) Head templates: {{ja-noun|おわり|hhira=をはり}} 終(お)わり • (owari) ^(←をはり (wofari)?)
  1. end; conclusion; finish Synonyms (end): 終い (shimai), 最後 (saigo), 結末 (ketsumatsu), 終末 (shūmatsu), 終え (oe)
    Sense id: en-終わり-ja-noun-jiWHZstc Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 21 41 38 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 37 39 25 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 37 39 25 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 37 39 25 Disambiguation of 'end': 100 0
  2. death; collapse; fall Synonyms (death): ご臨終 (gorinjū), 最期 (saigo), 終焉 (shūen)
    Sense id: en-終わり-ja-noun-8laPY3qR Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 21 41 38 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 37 39 25 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 37 39 25 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 37 39 25 Disambiguation of 'death': 8 92

Verb

IPA: [o̞ɰᵝa̠ɾʲi] Forms: 終わり [canonical] (ruby: ()), owari [romanization], wofari [romanization], をはり [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 終わる (owaru, “to end”, intransitive). Etymology templates: {{m|ja|連用形||continuative or stem form|tr=ren'yōkei}} 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”), {{m|ja|終わる||to end|pos=intransitive|tr=owaru}} 終わる (owaru, “to end”, intransitive) Head templates: {{ja-verb form|おわり|hhira=をはり}} 終(お)わり • (owari) ^(←をはり (wofari)?)
  1. the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 終(お)わる (owaru). Related terms: 終わる: to end (owaru) (ruby: ()) [intransitive], 終える: to end something (oeru) (ruby: ()) [transitive]
    Sense id: en-終わり-ja-verb-jYkmWkzp Categories (other): Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 21 41 38 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 37 39 25 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 37 39 25 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 37 39 25

Alternative forms

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      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "owari",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wofari",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "をはり",
      "roman": "wofari",
      "tags": [
        "hiragana",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "おわり",
        "hhira": "をはり"
      },
      "expansion": "終(お)わり • (owari) ^(←をはり (wofari)?)",
      "name": "ja-verb form"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "owaru",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "終",
          "お"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "word": "終わる: to end"
    },
    {
      "roman": "oeru",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "終",
          "お"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "word": "終える: to end something"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 終(お)わる (owaru)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "連(れん)用(よう)形(けい)",
          "連用形#Japanese"
        ],
        [
          "ren'yōkei",
          "ren'yōkei#Japanese"
        ],
        [
          "終(お)わる",
          "終わる#Japanese"
        ],
        [
          "owaru",
          "owaru#Japanese"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "おわり"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[o̞ɰᵝa̠ɾʲi]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Daijisen",
    "Shogakukan",
    "Tōkyō",
    "ja:大辞林",
    "ja:大辞泉",
    "ja:松村明"
  ],
  "word": "終わり"
}
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  "msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "終わり"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "終わり",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

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  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "終わり"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "終わり",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
  "path": [
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  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "終わり",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

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  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "終わり"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "終わり",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). 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.