鴨る

Japanese

Kanji in this term
鴨
かも Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Etymology

Derived from noun 鴨 (kamo, “duck”), from the slang sense of “a mark or easy target for a swindle, someone who is likely to lose at gambling or other competition”, from the way that ducks return to the same place and are thus easy to hunt.^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ka̠mo̞ɾɯ̟]

Verb

鴨(かも)る • (kamoru) transitive godan (stem 鴨(かも)り (kamori), past 鴨(かも)った (kamotta))

“to make a duck of someone”: to skillfully or cunningly beat out an opponent, such as in gambling or a swindle; compare English to make a monkey out of, to shark someone
トランプでも麻雀(マージャン)でも鴨(かも)られちゃった。
Toranpu demo mājan demo kamorarechatta.
I was soundly beaten / taken in / sharked in both cards and mahjong.

Conjugation

Conjugation of "鴨る" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	鴨ら	かもら	kamora
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	鴨り	かもり	kamori
Shūshikei ("terminal")	鴨る	かもる	kamoru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	鴨る	かもる	kamoru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	鴨れ	かもれ	kamore
Meireikei ("imperative")	鴨れ	かもれ	kamore
Key constructions
Passive	鴨られる	かもられる	kamorareru
Causative	鴨らせる鴨らす	かもらせるかもらす	kamoraseru kamorasu
Potential	鴨れる	かもれる	kamoreru
Volitional	鴨ろう	かもろう	kamorō
Negative	鴨らない	かもらない	kamoranai
Negative continuative	鴨らず	かもらず	kamorazu
Formal	鴨ります	かもります	kamorimasu
Perfective	鴨った	かもった	kamotta
Conjunctive	鴨って	かもって	kamotte
Hypothetical conditional	鴨れば	かもれば	kamoreba

References

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[KDJ-1] Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

[DJR-2] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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