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メタファー (metafaa) Japanese meaning: metaphor | Kotomora

メタファー

also: メタファ · メタフォ · メタフォー

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Meanings

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Standard loanword for 'metaphor', used in literary, rhetorical, and everyday contexts.

「人じん生せいは旅たびだ」というのはよく使つかわれるメタファーです。
'Life is a journey' is a commonly used metaphor.

Related words

比ひ喩ゆ
Native Japanese word for 'metaphor' or 'figure of speech'; more formal and academic than メタファー.
直ちょく喩ゆ
Simile; explicitly compares using words like よう or みたい, unlike metaphor which implies the comparison.

Written forms

メタファーUsage98%
Most common katakana spelling for 'metaphor'.
メタファUsage2%
Shorter variant; less common but still used.

Etymology

彼かれの詩しには自し然ぜんを題だい材ざいにしたメタファーが多おおく見みられる。

His poetry contains many metaphors based on nature.

Loanword from English 'metaphor', ultimately from Greek 'metaphora'.