feng Posted February 4, 2012 at 02:20 AM Report Posted February 4, 2012 at 02:20 AM The ABC and CEDICT both say 俱樂部 (ju4le4bu4) is a loan word for club/group/organisation. Does anyone know in which language or word it might be a loan word from? Quote
OneEye Posted February 4, 2012 at 03:29 AM Report Posted February 4, 2012 at 03:29 AM English. It may not be a loan through Mandarin though. In Cantonese, 俱 is pronounced keoi1. Quote
muirm Posted February 4, 2012 at 03:32 AM Report Posted February 4, 2012 at 03:32 AM Baidu says it's a Japanese transliteration of the English word "club": “俱乐部”这个词是日本人对英文Club的音译. My Japanese dictionary gives the reading as くらぶ (クラブ), which is a closer approximation of "club". I wonder why this word is transliterated using kanji rather than just katakana? I haven't studied enough Japanese to know if that's at all common for loanwords. 1 Quote
renzhe Posted February 4, 2012 at 12:48 PM Report Posted February 4, 2012 at 12:48 PM Correct, it's read "kurabu" in Japanese. It was loaned from Japanese via Hanzi, like 电话. Quote
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