Where does “真っ暗” come from?
真っ暗 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 暗, from Japanese 暮れる — get dark, for night to fall; for the season to...
真っ暗 (Japanese): total darkness
Definitions
- total darkness
Ancestry of “真っ暗”, step by step
真っ暗 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 暗
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 暗 | darkness |
| 2 | Japanese | 暮れる | get dark, for night to fall; for the season to... |
via Japanese 真っ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 真っ | prefixes nouns, adjectives or adjectival nouns... |