Tanım
•an arranged engagement, wherein both sets of parents promise that their children shall wed; generally arranged while the children are still young · a fiancée (female) or fiancé (male)
Etimoloji
*/ipinaduke/ → /ifinad͡zuke/ → /iːnazuke/ The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of classical verb 言い名付く (iinazuku), modern 言い名付ける (iinazukeru, “to betroth someone, to engage someone to be married, to take someone as a fiancé / fiancée”, literally “to name someone out loud”). The kanji compound is jukujikun (熟(じゅく)字(じ)訓(くん)), from Chinese 許婚 /许婚 (xǔhūn).