烏からす勘かん左ざ衛え門もん

noun

crow; Mr. Crow

Obsolete humorous personification of a crow, used as a playful name.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの洒落しゃれ本ぼんには「烏からす勘かん左ざ衛え門もん」という言こと葉ばでカラスを呼よぶことがあった。

  In Edo-period humorous books, crows were sometimes called 烏勘左衛門.

noun

tanned person; dark-skinned person

Obsolete derogatory term likening a dark-skinned person to a crow.

• 昔むかしの言こと葉ばで、日ひに焼やけた人ひとを「烏からす勘かん左ざ衛え門もん」とあざけることがあった。

  In old language, a sun-tanned person was sometimes mocked as 烏勘左衛門.

noun

being penniless

Archaic term for being broke, possibly from the image of a crow's blackness suggesting emptiness.

• 「烏からす勘かん左ざ衛え門もん」は、昔むかし、無む一いち文もんの状じょう態たいを表あらわすのに使つかわれた。

  烏勘左衛門 was once used to describe a penniless state.