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In addition, the insult aho has more of a slang connotation than baka. Many Japanese dictionaries treat the words baka and aho as synonyms. "However, in Osaka and its surroundings, aho is a rather non-offensive word, whereas baka is an explosive word." Nevertheless, "In Tokyo and its surroundings, we find exactly the opposite, so you must be ...
The Japanese developed improved versions in an attempt to overcome the aircraft's shortcomings, but they came too late for deployment. Allied personnel referred to the aircraft as "Baka Bombs" ( baka being a Japanese pejorative term meaning "fool" or "idiot").
Meaning Japanese New Form Japanese Old Form Japanese Transliteration Japanese Meaning Note Ref bakéro: stupid, Japanese swear word ばかやろう: ばかやろう: bakayarō stupid 1. see baka. 2. also variously written as バカやろう, バカヤロウ, バカヤロオ and バカヤロー. 3. ultimately from Portuguese vaqueiro or Spanish ...
Baka (Japanese word), meaning "fool; idiot; foolish" Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, or Baka, Japanese suicide planes; BAKA, the Muslim chaplain service of the Royal Malaysian Police; Baka indigobird (Vidua larvaticola), a variant spelling of barka indigobird, an African species of bird; Baka, the 1990 debut album of the world-music group Outback (group)
Baku (獏 or 貘) are Japanese supernatural beings that are said to devour nightmares. They originate from the Chinese Mo. According to legend, they were created by the spare pieces that were left over when the gods finished creating all other animals. They have a long history in Japanese folklore and art, and more recently have appeared in ...
From the verb bokeru 惚ける or 呆ける, which carries the meaning of "senility" or "air headed-ness," and is reflected in a performer's tendency for misinterpretation and forgetfulness. The boke is the "simple-minded" member of an owarai kombi ( "tsukkomi and boke" , or vice versa ) that receives most of the verbal and physical abuse from ...
Taxidermy of a Japanese raccoon dog, wearing waraji on its feet: This tanuki is displayed in a Buddhist temple in Japan, in the area of the folktale "Bunbuku Chagama".. The earliest appearance of the bake-danuki in literature, in the chapter about Empress Suiko in the Nihon Shoki, written during the Nara period, is the passages "in two months of spring, there are tanuki in the country of Mutsu ...
Baka wa kaze o hikanai (in Japanese: 馬鹿は風邪を引かない) is a Japanese proverb and urban legend that translates to,"idiots don't catch colds". Origin [ edit ]