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Where does “ронин” come from?

ронин (Russian) comes from Japanese 浪人, from Middle Chinese 浪人.

ронин (Russian): ronin

Definitions

  1. ronin

Ancestry of “ронин”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese浪人a masterless samurai; a vagrant, a vagabond, a...
2Middle Chinese浪人—
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