忍ぶ

/sino₂bu/ → /sinobu/

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *sinənpu.

First attested as noun sino₂bi in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE, and as the verb in the Man'yōshū of circa 759 CE.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ɕino̞bɯ̟]

忍(しの)ぶ • (shinobu) godan (stem 忍(しの)び (shinobi), past 忍(しの)んだ (shinonda))

1. to conceal, to hide
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 6, poem 965:

     凡有者 左毛右毛将為乎 恐跡 振痛袖乎 忍而有香聞

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 11, poem 2478:

     秋柏 潤和川辺 細竹目 人不顏面 公無勝

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to suppress or hide one's feelings
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 2, poem 129:

     古之 嫗尓為而也 如此許 恋尓将沈 如手童児 _{一云 恋乎大尓忍金手武多和良波乃如}

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 3, poem 472:

     世間之 常如此耳跡 可都知跡 痛情者 不忍都毛

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 11, poem 2590:

     石根踏 夜道不行 念跡 妹依者 忍金津毛

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 11, poem 2635:

     剱刀 身尓佩副流 大夫也 恋云物乎 忍金手武

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 11, poem 2752:

     吾妹児乎 聞都賀野辺能 靡合歓木 吾者隠不得 間無念者

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   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 12, poem 2987:

     梓弓 引而不緩 大夫哉 恋云物乎 忍不得牟

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 17, poem 3940:

     余呂豆代尓 許己呂波刀気氐 和我世古我 都美之手見都追 志乃備加祢都母

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. to endure, to bear, to restrain oneself
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 12, poem 2911:

     人目多見 眼社忍礼 小毛 心中尓 吾念莫国

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 16, poem 3795:

     辱忍 辱尾黙 无事 物不言先丹 我者将依 二

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759), Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man’yōshū 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1999, →ISBN.
• Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759), Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 2: Man’yōshū 2 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2000, →ISBN.
• Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759), Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man’yōshū 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2002, →ISBN.
• Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759), Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 4: Man’yōshū 4 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2003, →ISBN.

• “忍ぶ”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025