波布

Etymology
Borrowed from. Likely cognate with 🇨🇬. The kanji spelling 波布 is an example of ateji, with the characters chosen purely for their phonetic values.
 * Possibly an alteration from, an obsolete term for a kind of Chinese medicine made from the skin and/or organs of certain venomous snakes.
 * More likely, may be an alteration from . Some dialects distinguish between non-poisonous hebi and poisonous habi.
 * Possibly also related to, or influenced by, -derived verb . An -  alternation can be found in some Japanese words, so a shift from hamu to habu is a reasonable possibility. The standard modern Japanese word hebi for “snake” may similarly be derived from, or have been influenced by, hamu “to bite”.

Noun

 * 1) a venomous pit viper of species  (syn. Trimeresurus flavoviridis), native to Okinawa

Derived terms

 * : the “real” or “true” habu
 * : the genus
 * :, also called coffee senna or coffeeweed, a wide-ranging tropical plant with seeds sometimes used for a beverage similar to coffee
 * : a beverage made by roasting senna seeds and steeping in water

Etymology
Cognate with mainland 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) snake, viper, Okinawan habu

Etymology
Cognate with mainland 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) snake, viper, Okinawan habu