堕天使

See also: 墮天使

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 堕天使 – see 墮天使 (“fallen angel”).
(This term, 堕天使, is the simplified form of 墮天使.)
Notes:

Japanese

堕天使 (datenshi): an illustration of a fallen angel from Paradise Lost.
Kanji in this term
堕 天 使
だ
Grade: S		 てん
Grade: 1		 し
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 堕 (da, “lapse; degenerate; fall”) +‎ 天使 (tenshi, “angel”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

堕天使 (hiragana だてんし, rōmaji datenshi)

  1. (Christianity, Islam) a fallen angel
    • 2000 March 1, “魔ま天てん老ろう [Demonic Skyelder]”, in Booster 7 (in Japanese), Konami:
      天 (てん)界 (かい)から追 (つい)放 (ほう)された堕 (だ)天 (てん)使 (し)。闇 (やみ)での闘 (たたか)いに優 (すぐ)れている。
      Tenkai kara tsuihō sareta datenshi. Yami de no tatakai ni sugurete iru.
      A fallen angel exiled from heaven. He excels at attacking from the dark.
    • 2004 September 8, Sorachi, Hideaki, “第だい二十二訓くん　ストレスはハゲる原げん因いんになるがストレスをためないように気きを配くばるとそこでまたストレスがたまるので結けっ局きょく僕ぼくらにできることなんて何なにもない [Lesson 22: Stress Makes You Go Bald But It’s Stressful to Avoid Stress So You End up Being Stressed out Anyway and There’s Nothing You Can Do about It]”, in 銀ぎん魂たま [Silver Soul], volume 3 (fiction, in Japanese), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:
      銀 (ぎん)さァァん‼ちょっと　コレ片 (かた)付 (づ)けてくださいよ‼まるでゴミ屋 (や)敷 (しき)じゃねーか！
      Gin-sāan‼ Chotto kore katazukete kudasai yo‼ Maru de gomi yashiki ja nē ka!
      Gin-saaan‼ Will you tidy up even a little bit⁉ This place is basically a scrap workshop!
      あ——　もうゴミ分別 (ぶんべつ)わかんねーからよォ　もう自 (じ)堕 (だ)落 (らく)に…堕 (だ)天 (てん)使 (し)のように生 (い)きることに決 (き)めたから
      A—— Mō gomi bunbetsu wakannē kara yō Mō jidaraku ni… datenshi no yō ni ikiru koto ni kimeta kara
      Nah—— I can’t even separate trash properly. I’ve thrown myself away from grace… into the lifestyle of a fallen angel
      どのへんが堕 (だ)天 (てん)使 (し)⁉
      Dono hen ga datenshi⁉
      What part of you is like a fallen angel⁉
  2. (Christianity, Islam; by extension) the Devil, Satan, Lucifer

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.