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.
On summer nights, we burned a mosquito fumigator.
Using a mosquito smudge in the garden reduces mosquitoes.
Commonly used spelling; 蚊 (mosquito) + いぶし (smoking out).
Kanji spelling using 燻 (to smoke, fumigate); less common but still encountered.
Abbreviated kanji spelling; rare and may be ambiguous.
Compound of 蚊 (ka, 'mosquito') and いぶし (ibushi, 'smoking out', nominalized form of いぶす (ibusu, 'to smoke, fumigate')).