韋駄天走り

Japanese
Kanji in this term
韋 駄 天 走
い
Hyōgaiji		 だ
Grade: S		 てん
Grade: 1		 はし > ばし
Grade: 2
on’yomi goon on’yomi kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 韋駄天 (idaten, “Skanda (Buddhism)”) +‎ 走り (hashiri, “running”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 走る hashiru, "to run"), from a story of Skanda running very fast to catch demons who had stolen holy relics.[1][2][3][4][5] The hashiri changes to bashiri as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

First cited to 1719.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) いだてんば​しり [ìdátéńbáꜜshìrì] (Nakadaka – [5])[4][6][5]
  • IPA(key): [ida̠tẽ̞mba̠ɕiɾʲi]

Noun

韋(い)駄(だ)天(てん)走(ばし)り • (idatenbashiri) ←ゐだてんばしり (widatenbasiri)?

  1. [from 1719] running extremely fast

References
  1. “韋駄天走”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. “韋駄天”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984
  3. “韋駄天”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
  4. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  6. 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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