五十嵐

Japanese

Kanji in this term
五 十 嵐
い あらし > がらし
Grade: S
Grade: 1 Grade: 1
jukujikun kun'yomi

Etymology

Originally a compound of 五十 (i-, “fifty”, combining form) +‎ が (ga, Old Japanese genitive particle) +‎ 嵐 (arashi, “storm”), with the initial a of arashi dropped due to lack of vowel clusters in Old Japanese, hence the literal meaning "fifty storms".

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) いがらし [ìgáꜜràshì] (Nakadaka – [2])
  • IPA(key): [iɡa̠ɾa̠ɕi]

Proper noun

五十(い)嵐(がらし) • (Igarashi) 

  1. a surname
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