駅弁

Japanese
Kanji in this term
駅 弁
えき
Grade: 3		 べん
Grade: 5
kan’on goon
Alternative spelling
驛辨 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 駅(えき) (eki, “station”) + 弁(べん)当(とう) (bentō, “boxed lunch”).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “sex position”)

Pronunciation

Noun

駅(えき)弁(べん) • (ekiben) 

  1. a bento (boxed lunch) sold at a railroad station
  2. (sex) ekiben (a sex position which consists of one participant carrying the other while penetrating them)

Derived terms
  • 駅弁(えきべん)大学(だいがく) (Ekiben Daigaku)
  • 空弁(そらべん) (soraben)

Descendants
  • → English: ekiben

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  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
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