Etymology

sarugaku

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Today it means: A form of Japanese theater popular during the 11th to 14th centuries. Full definition →

Japanese 猿楽
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from猿楽
  2. English todaysarugaku

From Japanese 猿楽 (literally “monkey music”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.