a kimono

to dye / to color; to paint; to blush / (手を染める) to set about; to be involved with / (筆を染める) to start writing

attaches to the continuative form (連用形) of a verb: to get the color or smell through something (＝染み込ませる)

the past / ancient times

(not of a person) old, aged, antiquated

old

the Japanese indigo or Chinese indigo plant, Persicaria tinctoria / the color indigo / kanji used to transliterate Buddhist terms borrowed from Sanskrit

the Japanese indigo or Chinese indigo plant, Persicaria tinctoria / the color indigo, from the dye processed from the stems and leaves of various indigo plants

a female given name / a surname

(chiefly women's speech) first person singular pronoun: I, me