noun
mosquito fumigator; smudge; smoking out mosquitoes
Refers to a device or material that produces smoke to repel or kill mosquitoes, such as a mosquito coil or smudge pot. Also used for the act of smoking out mosquitoes.
夏の夜は蚊いぶしを焚いて過ごした。
On summer nights, we burned a mosquito fumigator.
庭で蚊いぶしを使うと蚊が少なくなる。
Using a mosquito smudge in the garden reduces mosquitoes.
Compound of 蚊 (ka, 'mosquito') and いぶし (ibushi, 'smoking out', nominalized form of いぶす (ibusu, 'to smoke, fumigate')).