韋駄天走り
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |||
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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
韋駄天走り • (idatenbashiri) ←ゐだてんばしり (widatenbasiri)?
- [from 1719] running extremely fast
References
- “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
- “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
- “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
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN