Where does “bokeh” come from?

bokeh (Hungarian) comes from English bokeh, from Japanese 暈け, from Japanese 暈ける, from Japanese ほける.

bokeh (Hungarian): bokeh the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light

Definitions

  1. bokeh the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light

Ancestry of “bokeh”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbokehA subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of an image projected by a camera lens
2Japanese暈けbokeh
3Japanese暈けるto fade; to blur, to be out of focus
4Japaneseほける—
Every word from Japanese ほける →Every word from Japanese 暈ける →Every word from Japanese 暈け →