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- Japanese · borrowed from俵
- English todaytawara
Borrowed from Japanese 俵 (tawara).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tawara
Today it means: Any of the straw bales, packed with earth, placed in a circle on the dohyo and forming the area that the rikishi must stay inside. Full definition →
Japanese 俵