Japanese

Noun

合歓 ‎(hiragana ごうかん, romaji gōkan)

1. delighting themselves together
2. man and woman sleeping in the same bed
3. Abbreviation of 合歓木.

Derived terms

Verb

合歓する ‎(hiragana ごうかんする, romaji gōkan suru)

1. delight themselves together
2. sleep in the same bed (of man and woman)

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From 眠り ‎(nemuri, “sleep”).

Noun

合歓 ‎(hiragana ねむ, katakana ネム, romaji nemu)

1. silk tree, specifically Persian silk tree

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From 眠り ‎(neburi, “sleep”), which is the old obsolete reading thereof, and in modern form, the bilabial plosive /b/ has become bilabial nasal /m/.

Noun

合歓 ‎(hiragana ねぶ, katakana ネブ, romaji nebu)

1. silk tree, specifically Persian silk tree