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やっかむ Japanese meaning | Kotomora

やっかむ

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Meanings

1

godan verb (-mu), transitive verb

envy; be jealous of

Dialectal (Kantō) verb for feeling envy or jealousy toward someone's success, possessions, or situation. Used in casual speech.

友とも達だちの新あたらしい車くるまをやっかんでいる。
I'm envious of my friend's new car.
彼かれは同どう僚りょうの昇しょう進しん

を

やっかん

で

、

あまり

話はな

さ

なく

なっ

た

。

He became jealous of his colleague's promotion and stopped talking to him much.

Similar words

羨うらやむ
Standard Japanese verb for 'to envy'. やっかむ is a dialectal equivalent used mainly in the Kantō region and carries a slightly more colloquial, sometimes petty nuance.
妬ねたむ
Standard Japanese verb for 'to be jealous'. やっかむ overlaps with both 羨む and 妬む but is regionally marked and less formal.

Etymology

Dialectal verb from the Kantō region. The exact derivation is uncertain, but it may be related to the standard Japanese verb 妬む (ねたむ) or a sound-symbolic root expressing envy.