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• conbini

語源

Borrowed from Japanese コンビニ (konbini), which is a clipping of コンビニエンスストア (konbiniensu sutoa), which is from English convenience store. If English had a clipping of convenience store as *conveny (/kənˈviːni/), it would be analogous (i.e., morphologically and phonologically parallel) with konbini.

名詞

konbini (plural konbini or konbinis)

1. A convenience store in Japan.
   • 2024 November 8, Justin McCurry, “Coffee, sandwiches, underwear, beer: a day in the life of Japan’s beloved konbini stores”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Just as it is almost impossible to walk through a Japanese town or city without encountering a vending machine, konbini are a fixture of the urban landscape, their brightly lit frontages holding out promise of round-the-clock sustenance and polite, if functional, customer service.

   • 2025 April 12, Ajesh Patalay, “Call of the konbini”, in HTSI, page 115:

     One-stop shops for everything, from clothes to make-up to household items, konbinis are open round the clock as “life infrastructure” (an official classification by the Japanese government), offering services that are vital to daily life.