蛮語

ばんご

language spoken by the Emishi n
languages spoken by the nanban during the Edo Period (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch) n
foreign language n

Kanji

バン

えびす

barbarian

ゴ

かた.る • かた.らう

word; speech; language

えぞえみし

Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan n
Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) n

なんばん

southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south) n arch derog
South-East Asia n arch
Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies) n arch
exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style) pref
(in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm) n
food prepared using chili peppers or Welsh onions n abbr