鶯張り

Japanese

Kanji in this term
鶯	張
うぐいす Hyōgai	は > ば Grade: 5
kun'yomi

Etymology

Compound of 鶯 (uguisu, “Japanese bush warbler”) +‎ 張り (hari, “stretching”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 張る haru, "to stretch"), from the way that the floor creaks upon pressure. The hari changes to bari as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) うぐいすばり [ùgúísúbárí] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ɡɯ̟isɨba̠ɾʲi]

Noun

鶯(うぐいす)張(ば)り • (uguisubari) ^{←うぐひすばり (ugufisubari)^?}

nightingale floor

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

[DJR-1] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[NHK-2] NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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