原書|げんしょgensho[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounoriginal document (not a copy or adaptation); book in its original language (esp. a European language)
   この本ほんは原書げんしょの要約ようやく版ばんです。↗

   This book is abridged from the original.

• Synonym原本げんぽんWrittenWritten/formal prose. The original document or source text, not limited to books; 「原書」 is the original book, esp. a foreign work before it is translated.
• SynonymオリジナルNeutralNeutral loanword for originality or the original item; 「原書」 specifically means the source book as opposed to a translation or copy.
• Related原版げんぱんWrittenWritten/formal prose. Refers to an original printing plate or first edition; 「原書」 stresses the original work, unaltered by translation or copying.
• Related原物げんぶつWrittenWritten/formal prose. The original object or item, not limited to books; 「原書」 applies only to books.
• Related正本せいほんWrittenWritten/formal prose. Mostly legal: an official certified text, e.g. a court clerk's copy made from the original judgment; 「原書」 centers on the original work.
• Antonym翻訳ほんやくNeutralNeutral. A translation, the opposite of 「原書」 as a foreign-language original.
• Antonym抄訳しょうやくWrittenWritten/formal prose. An abridged translation of part of a text, contrasted with 「原書」 as the complete original work.

Use 「原書」 for the original book as opposed to a translation or copy, often a foreign-language book, as in 「原書で読む」. For original documents use 「原本」; for originality, 「オリジナル」; for a certified legal text, 「正本」. A translation is 「翻訳」; an abridged one 「抄訳」.

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1. 書写しょしゃ本ほんや翻訳ほんやく本ほんに対たいし元もととなる書物しょもつ。