イワ
Meanings
Noun
1. rock; boulder
Look, no matter how you look at it, that's just a rock.
2. crag
Pitch accent
イ
ワ
Used in vocabulary (59 in total)
alpine gesneriad (Conandron ramondioides)
rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome)
Asian house martin (Delichon dasypus)
rock tripe (edible lichen used as medication in Korea, China and Japan)
wild harvested nori; jelly lichen (Collema sp.)
water trickling from rocks
rock door (to a cave)
stones and trees; sticks and stones; apathetic person; cold-hearted person; (arch.) brown coal
rocky area; rocky tract; rocky stretch (of a climb); wall (of rock)
foot of a rock; large rock, most of which is buried
Iwate (prefecture)
Iwagaki oyster (Crassostrea nippona)
pincushion plant (Diapensia lapponica)
Chinese dunce cap (species of succulent plant, Orostachys iwarenge)
keiskei fetterbush (Leucothoe keiskei); doghobble; dog hobble
rocky mountain
bare rock; rock surface; rock face
cave; cavern; grotto; dwelling made in a cave; house carved into rock
shade of a rock
monolith; large slab of rock; unity (of a group, organization, etc.); unanimity; solidarity
halite; rock salt
rock cave; rock cavern
among rocks
edge or corner of a stone
Iwaki (former province located in the central and eastern parts of present-day Fukushima and southern Miyagi prefectures)
Iwashiro (former province located in the west of present-day Fukushima Prefecture)
Iwanami (publisher); Iwanami
rock climbing
natural mineral pigments
pair of rocks resembling a married couple (one larger representing the husband, one smaller the wife)
stone wall; natural stone wall
Selaginella tamariscina (species of spikemoss)
sheer cliff
stone-like socle (used as the base for a Buddhist statue)
rocky outcrop; jumble of rocks
belt used for back support after fifth month of pregnancy
Marphysa sanguinea (species of eunicid worm)
Epigaea asiatica
rock paintings; rock drawings; rock art
Iwatani International Corporation
Nissho Iwai Corporation
alpine accentor (Prunella collaris)
Marphysa sanguinea (species of eunicid worm)
dwarf Japanese garden juniper (Juniperus chinensis var. procumbens)
chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar)
roseroot (Rhodiola rosea)
Pyrrosia tricuspis (species of felt fern)
mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus); Rocky Mountain goat
creeping lettuce (Ixeris stolonifera)
Selaginella tamariscina (species of spikemoss)
Kuroiwa's ground gecko (Goniurosaurus kuroiwae); Ryukyu eyelid gecko
Laotian rock rat (Laonastes aenigmamus); kha-nyou; rat-squirrel
Nippon bells (Shortia uniflora)
fringe bell (Schizocodon soldanelloides); fringed galax
rock wallaby
green verditer
cave prison; cliffside jail
Jubilo Iwata (professional football club)
Examples (41 in total)
Mary was sitting on a rock.
The waves washed upon the rocks.
A rock fell from above.