Chinese

Noun

樹懶

1. sloth (the American mammal)

Japanese

Etymology

ナマケモノ (a sloth)

From 怠け者 ‎(“lazy person”). The kanji is from Chinese 樹懶.

Pronunciation

• (Irregular reading)
• (Tokyo) なまけもの [nàmákémónó] (Heiban - [0])^[1][2][3]
• (Tokyo) なまけもの​ [nàmákémónóꜜ] (Odaka - [0])^[1][2][3]
• IPA^(key): [na̠ma̠ke̞mõ̞no̞]

Alternative forms

• 怠け者; 怠者
• 懶け者; 懶者

Noun

樹懶 ‎(hiragana なまけもの, katakana ナマケモノ, romaji namakemono)

1. (zoology) sloth

References

1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
3. 1 2 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13143-0