生なま成なり

noun, na-adjective

half-finished; unripe; incomplete

Describes something not fully developed, cooked, or matured. Can be used literally for fruit or figuratively for plans, skills, or work.

• この計けい画かくはまだ生なま成なりだ。

  This plan is still half-baked.

• 生なま成なりの果か実じつは酸すっぱい。

  Unripe fruit is sour.

noun

unfermented narezushi; unfermented brine-pickled sushi

Specific culinary term for a type of sushi that is pickled but not fully fermented, contrasting with fully fermented narezushi.

See also: なれずし

• 生なま成なりの鮨すしは発はっ酵こうが浅あさく、現げん代だいの寿す司しに近ちかい食しょっ感かんだ。

  Unfermented narezushi has a light fermentation and a texture close to modern sushi.

noun

noh mask of a woman becoming a hannya

In Noh theater, a mask representing a woman in the process of transforming into a demon (hannya), with small horns and wild hair.

See also: 般若

• 生なま成なりの面めんは、般はん若にゃになる前まえの女じょ性せいの怨おん念ねんを表あらわす。

  The namari mask expresses the grudge of a woman before she becomes a hannya.