Lingaku呼ぶ【よぶ】
Frequency rank: 354.
- to call out (to); to call; to invoke
- to summon (a doctor, etc.)
- to invite
- to designate; to name; to brand
- to garner (support, etc.); to gather
- to take as one's wifearchaismsee also 娶る
Godan verb with 'bu' ending; transitive verb
Forms
- 呼ぶ【よぶ】Frequency rank: 354.
- 喚ぶ【よぶ】Frequency rank: 15,698. – 15,744.
- よぶFrequency rank: 37,772. – 38,256.
Generated definitions (experimental)
- to call out (to); to call; to invoke
- to summon (a doctor, etc.)
- to invite
- to designate; to name; to brand
- to garner (support, etc.); to gather
- to take as one's wife
This meaning is used when calling out to someone, addressing someone or invoking a name or a deity.
This meaning is used when calling someone for help or assistance, like summoning a doctor or a specialist.
Please summon a doctor.
This meaning is used when inviting someone to an event, party, or gathering.
Please invite me to the birthday party.
This meaning is used when giving a designation or a name to something or someone.
This meaning is used when gathering support, followers, or opinions.
This meaning is used when referring to taking someone as a wife.
Generated collocations (experimental)
よびかける呼びかけるto call out toともだち友達をよぶ呼ぶto call a friendなまえ名前をよぶ呼ぶto call a nameきんきゅうじたい緊急事態をよぶ呼ぶto summon an emergencyいしゃをよぶ医者を呼ぶto call a doctorかいぎ会議にしょうたい招待してよぶ呼ぶto invite and call to the meetingたすけ助けをよぶ呼ぶto call for helpよぶ呼ぶこえ声a calling voiceかのじょ彼女をつま妻としてよぶ呼ぶto call her as one's wifeさいのう才能をよびおこす呼び起こすto invoke talentしえん支援をよびよせる呼び寄せるto garner support
Wiktionary definitions (experimental)
Example sentences
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Food and drink were served in such profusion at the wedding that the bride and groom began to wonder if they should not have invited more guests.
The contents of the four registers are preserved by the called subroutine.
It seems as it was a shot-gun wedding so they're having a quiet wedding with only family and a couple of friends from university invited.
If you frequently spit-up blood you should call an ambulance or have a nearby physician make a house call.
We call these slabs of the solid-rock layer 'plates'.
The magician Sarah. Apparently people call her "The Great Mage" or some such.
In which case, I was also requested to invite all of you so if you would please accompany me...
There are grammar books that call these sorts of things, not modifiers, but adjuncts (A).
There were figures there from those of an age best called girls and boys to those who looked to be old enough to be about to live out their life span.
If it's an aggressive strange salesman, then call me right away. I'll chase him off.
At home, because of his reddish hair and freckles, his mother scornfully named him "carrot" and had everybody else call him that.
Not at all, that's perfectly fine. Calling each other by one's given name is a good thing; it produces a feeling of fellowship.
In reports in America, guerrilla resistance by the Iraq military is called terrorism.