シャボン玉

Japanese
Kanji in this term
玉
たま > だま
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of シャボン (shabon, “soap”) +‎ 玉 (tama, “ball”).[1] The tama changes to dama as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) シャボンだま [shàbóńdámá] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
  • IPA(key): [ɕa̠bõ̞nda̠ma̠]

Noun

シャボン玉(だま) • (shabondama) 

  1. a soap bubble

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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