けんぱ

Japanese

Etymology 1

Likely from けんけん (kenken, “hopping”), perhaps via a regional dialect form such as きんぱ or けんけんば in central Japan. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “earliest attestation, variants, etc.”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kẽ̞mpa̠]

Noun

けんぱ • (kenpa) 

  1. a game similar to hopscotch
    Synonyms: けんけんぱ (kenkenpa), 石蹴 (ishikeri)
Usage notes

The game is played by drawing a series of circles or squares on the ground, then players jump from one section to the next, landing alternately on one foot or both feet. In the ishikeri (lit. “stone-kick”) variant, players kick a stone from one section to the next while jumping. Manner of play varies across regions.

See also

References
  • “けんぱ”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  • “けんけん”, in 日本方言大辞典 (Nihon Hōgen Daijiten) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2005
  • “石蹴”, in Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of けんぱ – see the following entry.
【検波】
[noun] (electronics) demodulation, detection (of radio waves)
(This term, けんぱ, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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