Etymology

gambaru

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Today it means: Perseverance even with the hardest of tasks, in the context of Japanese culture. Full definition →

Japanese 頑張る
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  1. Japanese · borrowed from頑張る“work hard, do one's best”
  2. English todaygambaru

Borrowed from Japanese 頑張る (ganbaru, “work hard, do one's best”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.