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トタン [gai1]
1. [n] Source lang: por "tutanaga"
▶ corrugated iron
▶ corrugated sheet metal
▶ galvanised sheet iron
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1928910 亜鉛鉄板【あえんてっぱん】 1. galvanized sheet iron; galvanised sheet iron; galvanized sheet metal
  ⇐ see: 1926230 カラートタン 1. colored galvanized steel sheet (coloured)
  ⇐ see: 2827017 トタン板【トタンいた】 1. galvanized sheet iron; galvanised sheet iron



History:
4. A 2022-08-13 01:16:42  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I reversed it.
  Diff:
@@ -10 +9,0 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1928910">亜鉛鉄板</xref>
3. A* 2022-08-12 21:45:10  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
koj and daijs mention 亜鉛鉄板 as a synonym, but it's much rarer than トタン. Not sure the x-ref is needed.
All the google image results and images on ja wikipedia show corrugation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrugated_galvanised_iron
Wikipedia says "corrugated iron" is "near universal"

corrugated iron             44,690
corrugated sheet metal       1,791
corrugated galvanised iron     497
corrugated galvanized iron     459
galvanized sheet iron          354
galvanised sheet iron           64
wriggly tin                     57


Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬─────────╮
│ トタン     │ 142,046 │
│ 亜鉛鉄板    │   3,106 │
│ あえんてっぱん │       0 │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴─────────╯
  Diff:
@@ -10 +10 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1928910">亜鉛鉄板・あえんてっぱん</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="1928910">亜鉛鉄板</xref>
@@ -12 +12,3 @@
-<gloss>galvanized sheet iron (galvanised)</gloss>
+<gloss>corrugated iron</gloss>
+<gloss>corrugated sheet metal</gloss>
+<gloss>galvanised sheet iron</gloss>
2. A 2015-04-07 07:45:01  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
i thought there was an effort to eliminate the (alt_spelling) style.  also, all dicts but koj and gg5 are less certain about the etymology
1. A* 2015-03-21 00:44:16  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Daijr, Gg5, etc.
  Comments:
It's not zinc itself; only zinc-coated steel.
  Diff:
@@ -9,0 +10 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="1928910">亜鉛鉄板・あえんてっぱん</xref>
@@ -11,6 +12 @@
-<gloss>zinc</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<gloss>galvanized sheet iron</gloss>
-<gloss>galvanised sheet iron</gloss>
+<gloss>galvanized sheet iron (galvanised)</gloss>

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