大騒ぎ

Japanese
Kanji in this term
大 騒
おお
Grade: 1		 さわ
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
大騷ぎ (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Compound of 大(おお) (ō, “big, large”) + 騒(さわ)ぎ (sawagi, “noise, commotion”, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 騒(さわ)ぐ (sawagu, “to be noisy, to make a commotion”)).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

大(おお)騒(さわ)ぎ • (ōsawagi) ←おほさわぎ (ofosawagi)?

  1. an uproar, a brouhaha

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
  4. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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