Etymology

chanbara

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Today it means: A Japanese genre of period action film about samurai. Full definition →

Japanese ちゃんばら
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed fromちゃんばら“swordplay”
  2. English todaychanbara

Borrowed from Japanese ちゃんばら (“swordplay”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.