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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

聖杯

Pronunciation / Transliteration: seihai

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sangrail/ˌsæŋˈɡreɪl/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"アーサー王の騎士たちは聖杯を求めて旅立った。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The Holy Grail, the cup or chalice used by Jesus at the Last Supper in medieval Arthurian legend.

    "The knights of the Round Table embarked on a perilous quest to find the lost sangrail."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old French 'san格' or 'sang real', meaning 'royal blood' or the holy blood, which was mistakenly parsed in medieval romance as 'san graal' (holy grail). It entered Middle English as an alternative archaic term for the Holy Grail.

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