抱く

Etymology 1
→

Shift from idaku.

Compare the shift of →.

First cited to the  of roughly 999.

Verb

 * 1)  to embrace, hug, hold in one's arms
 * 2)   to sleep with someone
 * 3) to sit on eggs, to brood on a nest
 * 4)   to hold something in mind, to harbor some feeling about, to entertain a thought about
 * 5)  to involve someone in one's own actions or thoughts, particularly in negative contexts
 * 6)   to take a gigolo as a lover
 * 1) to sit on eggs, to brood on a nest
 * 2)   to hold something in mind, to harbor some feeling about, to entertain a thought about
 * 3)  to involve someone in one's own actions or thoughts, particularly in negative contexts
 * 4)   to take a gigolo as a lover

Etymology 2
→

Shift from earlier udaku.

This reading is possibly cited to a work from roughly 850. However, that citation is phonologically ambiguous, and may represent the reading udaku instead. The first unambiguous citation for the idaku reading is in the  of roughly 935.

While there are numerous examples of mu shifting to u in various words, the mu- → u- → i- shift is unusual, and is shared only by mubara → ubara → ibara (, “bramble, briar”).

Found more commonly in.

Verb

 * 1)  to hold something in mind, to harbor some feeling about, to entertain a thought about
 * 2)   to embrace, hug, hold in one's arms
 * 1)   to embrace, hug, hold in one's arms

Etymology 3
→ →

Shift from, in turn possibly a compound of.

First cited to a text from roughly 810.

This reading is encountered more in the context of, and it fell out of use in roughly the.

Verb

 * 1)   to hug, embrace
 * 2)  to hold something in mind, to harbor some feeling about, to entertain a thought about

Etymology
Probably a compound of.

First cited in the  of roughly 759. Not attested past the early.

Verb

 * 1) to hug, embrace