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Wo da arien

Postby Atlan » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:48 am

In the Manga (and anime) Shampoo calls Ranma her arien. If memory serves, she only does this before she returns to China and gets cursed. Afterwards, she never says it again.
I could be wrong, but it's irrlevent to my question.
My question is: Is the word Arien gender specefic? And does it actually mean married, or just engaged?
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Postby lwf58 » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:41 am

The word is "airen". It means "spouse", and is not gender-specific. It can mean either husband or wife.
It can also be a term of affection between married individuals, which is how Shampoo uses it -- it's like the word "sweetheart" in that case.
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Postby Bliss » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:09 am

Actually if you want to be transliteral about it. Ai Ren means Lover.
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Postby Knight of L-sama » Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:56 am

Bliss wrote:Actually if you want to be transliteral about it. Ai Ren means Lover.

One could also probably read it as Beloved. The hanzi are simply love and person.
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Postby Bliss » Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:27 am

*grins* True. But if you wanted to go for beloved, transliteral-ly, then you'd go with Qing Ai De... which is like Dearest, or Darling. *grins* Okay I'm not gonna continue this, lest it goes off topic. Needless to say, Ai Ren. Is pretty synonymous with lover, or beloved, or sweetheart...in other words it's a term of endearment. *shrugs*
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