<entry id="2335848" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2717360</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>えも言はず</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>えも言はぬ</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>えもいわず</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<pos>&adj-f;</pos>
<misc>&arch;</misc>
<s_inf>also used adverbially</s_inf>
<gloss>indescribable (beauty, awfulness, etc.)</gloss>
<gloss>unutterable</gloss>
<gloss>inexpressable</gloss>
<gloss>unspeakable</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2012-05-27 06:32:46" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_detl>sõnul seletamatu</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-05-27 20:32:11" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>please provide references and an english translation.  it's not our duty to translate japanese to english nor estonian to english</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>koj, daij, nikk, oubunsha kogo jiten.  all use the headword えも言はず and indicate that は is pronounced わ here</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -5,1 +5,1 @@
-&lt;keb&gt;えも言わず&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;えも言はず&lt;/keb&gt;
@@ -11,2 +11,4 @@
-&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;???&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;exp;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;arch;&lt;/misc&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;inexplicably&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;unexplainably&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-05-27 23:22:02" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-03-30 12:37:34" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Sombrero1</upd_name>
<upd_detl>Doesn't mean "inexplicably" from what I can see. Adj-f might also be appropriate here</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>taishukan全訳古語: 何とも言いようがないほど甚だしい
Shinsen: なんとも言いようがないほどすばらしく。
Both give adjectival glosses but shinsen points out that it is also adverbially. 

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬────┬───────╮
│ えも言はず │ 50 │ 61.0% │
│ えも言はぬ │ 32 │ 39.0% │might just have it here as a search key? The other option would be to have a second entry
╰─ーーーーー─┴────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -5,0 +6,4 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;えも言はぬ&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;
@@ -11,0 +16 @@
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;adj-f;&lt;/pos&gt;
@@ -13,2 +18,5 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;inexplicably&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;unexplainably&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;s_inf&gt;also used adverbially&lt;/s_inf&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;indescribable (beauty, awfulness, etc.)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;unutterable&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;inexpressable&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;unspeakable&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-03-31 06:48:37" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Very marginal.</upd_detl>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>