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单词 anma
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anman.

Brit. /ˈanmə/, U.S. /ˈɑnmə/
Forms:

α. 1800s– anma.

β. 1800s amah, 1800s– amma Brit. /ˈamə/, U.S. /ˈɑnmə/, 1900s– ama, 1900s– am'ma.

Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese anma.
Etymology: < Japanese anma (also transcribed as amma, reflecting the pronunciation) form of massage, the person administering it (both 8th cent.) < Middle Chinese (already in Old Chinese; compare Chinese ànmó to massage, literally ‘to push (with the hands) and rub’, also as noun ‘action of massaging, massage’).The Chinese word has also been borrowed into English more recently as anmo (late 20th cent.), with reference to the related Chinese form of massage (compare tui na n.).
1. A person who practises a form of traditional Japanese massage therapy in which pressure is applied to certain points on the body using the hands. Now rare.Originally and traditionally, anmas were blind (see e.g. quot. 1877).Now much less common than sense 2.
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1877 Tokio Times 24 Mar. 138/2 Some of the blind go out at night as anmas.
1989 J. Melville Haiku for Hanae (1990) x. 93 Professional anmas plied an ancient and entirely respectable trade, scrupulously avoiding the forbidden areas of the client's body.
2. A form of traditional Japanese massage therapy in which pressure is applied to certain points on the body using the hands. Frequently as a modifier. Cf. shiatsu n.
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1891 Good Health Jan. 8/1 Though the Japanese amma may not be perfectly scientific in its method, it succeeds wonderfully in driving away the pains and aches.
2014 Sunday Tel. (Electronic ed.) 30 Mar. 1 You may want to indulge in an anma therapy massage, in which case your limbs will feel strangely detached from your body for hours afterwards.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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