ホーム

ホーム · hoomu · JLPT N3 · noun

platform

🚉🏠 Clipped from プラットホーム (platform), and also English home

Japanese borrowed platform as プラットホーム, then cut it to its tail, ホーム. That makes it sound like the English word home, which it can also mean, as in ホームページ (homepage). At a station, ホーム almost always means the platform.

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