a kind of oni that appears in various folktales as the bad guy, who deliberately goes against what people say · someone with a personality or behavior reminiscent of the folktale character: a crank, a perverse person · in Buddhist statuary, the small devil or demon being trampled under the feet of a 仁王 (Niō, “Deva king”) or one of the 四天王 (Shitennō, “four Deva warriors”)
köken: Compound of 天(あま) (ama, “heaven”) + の (no, possessive particle) + 邪鬼(じゃき) (jaki, “vengeful spirit, cursing kami”). The jaku reading for the 邪鬼 term is unusual, and the reason for this deviation from the expected jaki reading is unclear. One theory holds that the reading is a shift from 天探女 (ama no sagume), the name of a yōkai that appears in ancient Japanese tales and that seems to have been…
köken: Inherited from Old Hindi टेढौ (ṭeḍhau), टेढ (ṭeḍha), from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *तेड्ढ (tĕḍḍha), *त्रेड्ढ (trĕḍḍha), perhaps related to Sanskrit टेरक (ṭeraka, “squinting”) and टगर (ṭagara, “squint-eyed”), the latter whence Hindi टग्रा (ṭagrā, “cross-eyed”). Cognate with Bengali তেড়া (teṛa), টেড়া (ṭeṛa), Marathi तेडे (teḍe), Nepali टेड़ो (ṭeṛo), Old Gujarati त्रेडउ (treḍaü, “crooked”), whence…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Proto-Italic *peri- Latin per- Proto-Indo-European *wert- Proto-Indo-European *wértetor Proto-Italic *wertō Latin vertō Latin pervertō Latin perversusder. Esperanto perversa From Latin perversus.