しまい

Japanese

Alternative spellings
仕舞い仕舞終い終了い了

The 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb しまう (“to finish, to end”).^[1]^[2]

しまい • (shimai)

For pronunciation and definitions of しまい – see the following entries.

【姉妹】	[noun] sisters [noun] (attributive, business) the status of being a sister

【仕舞】	[noun] (noh) a performance of noh dancing [noun] (noh) [from 16th century] an informal noh performance without accompanying music or costumes [noun] Alternative form of しまい (“the end, finish”)

【島井】	[proper noun] a surname

(This term, しまい (shimai), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN