🌏 Region(s): Ryukyu (Okinawa)
からん【橄欖】 : karan | define meaning
karan
Pronunciation: [kaɾaŋ̍]
Definition
Noun
- Chinese olive (Canarium album sp.); white olive
Etymology
Cognate with standard Japanese かんらん【橄欖】 kanran "Chinese olive". Ultimately from Chinese 【橄欖・橄榄】 "olive" (cf. Mandarin gǎnlǎn; Cantonese gaam3 laam2 and gaam3 laam5; Min Dong gā-lāng and gāng-lāng; Hokkien káⁿ-ná and kaⁿ-ná; Sino-Korean 감람 gamnam), reconstructed for Middle Chinese as *kamX lamX.
Historical Ryukyuan attestations
- Vocabulary of the language spoken at the Great Loo-Choo island in the Japan Sea (1818), by Herbert John Clifford, records "Olives, Kárang".
Spelling
| Orthography | Form |
|---|---|
| Kanji | 橄欖 |
| Kana | からん |
| Romanization | karan |
| Pronunciation (IPA) | [kaɾaŋ̍] |
意味：かんらん・カンラン【橄欖】
Categories:
橄欖
Cite this entry: Read, Zachary. (2025, January 11). からん【橄欖】 : karan | define meaning. JLect: Japonic Languages and Dialects Database. Retrieved 2025, January 23, from https://www.jlect.com/entry/6783/karan/.