縁起

えんぎ

omen, sign of luck

縁起直し

えんぎなおし

change of fortune, trying to change one's luck

縁起担ぎ

えんぎかつぎ

being superstitious; superstitious person

因縁生起

いんねんせいき

dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing

突起物

とっきぶつ

protuberance, protruding object, umbo

縁起を担ぐ

えんぎをかつぐ

to be superstitious, to believe in omens

縁起の悪い

えんぎのわるい

ominous, ill-omened, sinister

縁起の良い

えんぎのいい

of good omen; auspicious; lucky; auguring well (for); boding well (for)

縁起がいい

えんぎがいい

of good omen, augur well (for), boding well for, good fortune

縁起が良い

えんぎがよい

of good omen, augur well (for), boding well for, good fortune

縁起が悪い

えんぎがわるい

of bad omen, ill augur, boding evil, bad fortune

十二縁起説

じゅうにえんぎせつ

buddhist theory of the twelve-fold chain of causation

縁起でもない

えんぎでもない

ill omened (as in "Don't say such an ill omened thing!"), unlucky

生物の起源

せーぶつのきげん

origin of life

縁

ゆかり ふち よすが よすか へり えん えにし えに え

relationship (e.g. between two people), bond, link, connection

合縁奇縁

あいえんきえん

a couple strangely but happily united, uncanny relationship formed by a quirk of fate

再縁

さいえん

second marriage

族縁

ぞくえん

relative, relation, family tie

遠縁

とおえん

distant relative