サラダ

サラダ

Japanese

Etymology

Uncertain. Variously proposed to derive from English salad,[1][2][3][4][5] French salade[1] or Portuguese salada.[2]

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) サ​ラダ [sáꜜràdà] (Atamadaka – [1])[5][6]
• IPA^(key): [sa̠ɾa̠da̠]

Noun

サラダ (rōmaji sarada)

1. salad
   • 2002 February 18, Inokuma, Shinobu, “ＬＡＳＴラスト ＰＡＲＴパート　サラダデイズは永えい遠えんに… [LAST PART: Forever Salad Days…]”, in SALADサラダ DAYSデイズ [SALAD DAYS], volume 18 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, pages 187–188:

     Ｍｙマイ ｓａｌａｄサラダ ｄａｙｓデイズ（私わたしのサラダ時じ代だい）， ｗｈｅｎホエン Ｉアイ ｗａｓワズ ｇｒｅｅｎグリーン ｉｎイン ｊｕｄｇｅｍｅｎｔジャッジメント．（まだ、判はん断だんが未み熟じゅくだった頃ころ——）
     ？なに、それ。
     シェイクスピアのね、「アントニーとクレオパトラ」の中なかの一いっ節せつ。過か去こをふり返かえってクレオパトラが言いう台詞セリフだよ。あの二ふた人りは私わたしたちの…〝サラダデイズ〟だわ。

     Mai sarada deizu (Watashi no sarada jidai), hoen ai wazu gurīn in jajjimento. (mada, handan ga mijuku datta koro——)
     ? Nani, sore.
     Sheikusupia no ne, “Antonī to Kureopatora” no naka no issetsu. Kako o furikaette Kureopatora ga iu serifu da yo. Ano futari wa watashi-tachi no… "sarada deizu" da wa.

     My salad days, when I was green in judgement.
     What’s that?
     A quote from Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra”. Cleopatra said that when she was looking back at her past. We have some… "salad days", too, kinda like them.

Derived terms

• サラダドレッシング (sarada doresshingu, “salad dressing”)

References

1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
3. 1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
4. 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN
5. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
6. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN