謝肉祭

Japanese
Kanji in this term
謝 肉 祭
しゃ
Grade: 5		 にく
Grade: 2		 さい
Grade: 3
kan’on goon

Etymology

謝(しゃ) (sha, “to refuse”) + 肉(にく) (niku, “meat”) + 祭(さい) (sai, “celebration”). Calque of Latin carnem levare (“to put away meat”), a probable origin of the word carnival itself.

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) しゃにく​さい [shàníkúꜜsàì] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • (Tokyo) しゃに​くさい [shàníꜜkùsàì] (Nakadaka – [2])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɕa̠ɲ̟ikɯ̟ᵝsa̠i]

Noun

謝(しゃ)肉(にく)祭(さい) • (shanikusai) 

  1. carnival, a festival held just before the beginning of Lent
    Synonym: カーニバル (kānibaru)

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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