ドライブ

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English drive.[1][2]

First cited to a text from 1910.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) イブ [dòráꜜìbù] (Nakadaka – [2])[2]
  • IPA(key): [do̞ɾa̠ibɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

ドライブ • (doraibu) 

  1. [from 1910] driving (a car etc.), (especially) for personal entertainment; going out for a drive
    Hypernym: 運転 (unten, driving)
  2. [from 1923] (sports) a drive: a hit causing the ball to move in a flat trajectory, as in tennis or baseball
  3. [from ???] (computing) a drive (storage medium)
    ()(どう)ドライブ
    kidō doraibu
    startup drive

Verb

ドライブする • (doraibu suru) suru (stem ドライブ (doraibu suru shi), past ドライブした (doraibu suru shita))

  1. [from 1910] to go for a drive
  2. [from 1923] (sports) to drive: to hit the ball in a flat trajectory, as in tennis or baseball

Conjugation

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
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