Etymology

tsukubai

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Today it means: A small basin, usually of stone, used for ritual ablution in Japanese Buddhist temples and before the tea ceremony. Full definition →

Japanese 蹲踞
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from蹲踞
  2. English todaytsukubai

Borrowed from Japanese 蹲踞.

Words from the same roots

Japanese蹲踞 all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.