Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed. · A round cushion used for Zen meditation, traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves. · A specific kind of sofa-bed, with a fixed cushion that forms a mattress when folded down and a sofa when folded up.
Borrowed from Japanese 布団 (futon), in turn from Middle Chinese 蒲團 (MC bu dwan, “meditation cushion”) (compare Mandarin 蒲团 (pútuán)), from 蒲 (bu, “bulrush, cattail”) + 團 (dwan, “sphere, round object”) from the way the original cushion was round and made from woven bulrushes.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "bor",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ja",
"3": "布団",
"tr": "futon"
},
"expansion": "Japanese 布団 (futon)"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ltc",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Middle Chinese"
},
{
"name": "ltc-l",
"args": {
"1": "蒲團",
"2": "meditation cushion"
},
"expansion": "蒲團 (MC bu dwan, “meditation cushion”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "cmn",
"2": "蒲团",
"tr": "pútuán"
},
"expansion": "Mandarin 蒲团 (pútuán)"
}
],
"links": [
[
"布団",
"布団#Japanese"
],
[
"蒲團",
"蒲團#Chinese"
],
[
"蒲团",
"蒲团#Mandarin"
],
[
"蒲",
"蒲#Middle_Chinese"
],
[
"bulrush",
"bulrush"
],
[
"cattail",
"cattail"
],
[
"團",
"團#Middle_Chinese"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "noun",
"glosses": [
"A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed.",
"A round cushion used for Zen meditation, traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves.",
"A specific kind of sofa-bed, with a fixed cushion that forms a mattress when folded down and a sofa when folded up."
],
"tags": [],
"recordId": "92ca06cc1f7646483aba84562cb22681a6170d74ed62c30d42fa75fc55b3c06a",
"rawRecordSha256": "349603353ad981ed51e1007cb1100dc1f539f4afc1dfc33c31adcbbc0ed6ab05",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 224111
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 0,
"glosses": 0
}
}