まんびき

Japanese

Alternative spellings
万引き
万引

Etymology

/mabiki/ → /maɴbiki/

Shift from 間引き (mabiki, “thinning out”), from verb 間引く (mabiku, “to thin out seedlings; to pull out items from the middle”).[1][2] The original term first referred to the process of culling seedlings. Over time, this was used more euphemistically to refer to a shoplifter "thinning out" a store's merchandise.

First attested as manbiki in a text from 1831.[3]

The use of 万 to spell the man portion is an example of ateji (当(あ)て字(じ)).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) まんびき [màńbíkí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [mã̠mbʲikʲi]

Noun

まんびき • (manbiki) 

  1. shoplifting
  2. shoplifter

Verb

まんびきする • (manbiki suru) suru (stem まんびきし (manbiki shi), past まんびきした (manbiki shita))

  1. to shoplift

Conjugation

Conjugation of "まんびきする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") まんびきし manbiki shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") まんびきし manbiki shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") まんびきする manbiki suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") まんびきする manbiki suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") まんびきすれ manbiki sure
Meireikei ("imperative") まんびきせよ¹
まんびきしろ² 		manbiki seyo¹
manbiki shiro²
Key constructions
Passive まんびきされる manbiki sareru
Causative まんびきさせる
まんびきさす 		manbiki saseru
manbiki sasu
Potential まんびきできる manbiki dekiru
Volitional まんびきしよう manbiki shiyō
Negative まんびきしない manbiki shinai
Negative continuative まんびきせず manbiki sezu
Formal まんびきします manbiki shimasu
Perfective まんびきした manbiki shita
Conjunctive まんびきして manbiki shite
Hypothetical conditional まんびきすれば manbiki sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ “万引”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984
  3. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

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