韋駄天走り

韋駄天走り

Japanese

Kanji in this term
韋	駄	天	走
い Hyōgaiji	だ Grade: S	てん Grade: 1	はし > ばし Grade: 2
on’yomi	goon	on’yomi	kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 韋駄天 (idaten, “Skanda (Buddhism)”) +‎ 走り (hashiri, “running”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 走る hashiru, "to run"), from a story of Skanda running very fast to catch demons who had stolen holy relics.[1][2][3][4][5] The hashiri changes to bashiri as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

First cited to 1719.[1]

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) いだてんば​しり [ìdátéńbáꜜshìrì] (Nakadaka – [5])[4][6][5]
• IPA^(key): [ida̠tẽ̞mba̠ɕiɾʲi]

Noun

韋(い)駄(だ)天(てん)走(ばし)り • (idatenbashiri) ^{←ゐだてんばしり (widatenbasiri)?}

1. [from 1719] running extremely fast

References

1. “韋駄天走”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN
2. “韋駄天”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984
3. “韋駄天”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
4. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
5. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth 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