陽炎
Japanese
kanjitab
Definitions
- (sort=かぎろい) heat shimmer, heat haze
- (sort=かぎろい) the glow of dawn
Etymology
Compound from Japanese かぎる (shine, shimmer) + Japanese 影 kage, “shadow”, and with the kaga element in m + Japanese 炫 kaga, kagaya, “shining, shimmering”, m + Japanese 輝く kagayaku, “to shine, to sparkle” + Japanese 火 (fire, w).
Origin
Japanese
火
Gloss
fire, w
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
火
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- かぎる Japanese
- ヒトカゲ Japanese
- 不知火 Japanese
- 影 kage, “shadow”, and with the kaga element in m Japanese
- 檜 Japanese
- 火 Japanese
- 火の鳥 Japanese
- 火加減 Japanese
- 火口 Japanese
- 火影 Japanese
- 火神 Japanese
- 火花 Japanese
- 火鉢 Japanese
- 火食い鳥 Japanese
- 火鼠 Japanese
- 炎 Japanese
- 炫 kaga, kagaya, “shining, shimmering”, m Japanese
- 炭火 Japanese
- 焰 Japanese
- 燹 Japanese
- 狐火 Japanese
- 篝火 Japanese
- 葦火 Japanese
- 蛍火 Japanese
- 輝く kagayaku, “to shine, to sparkle” Japanese
- 野火 Japanese
- 鬼火 Japanese
- *poy Proto-Japonic