香ばしい

Japanese

Kanji in this term
こう
Grade: 4
goon
Alternative spellings
芳ばしい
馨しい (archaic)

Etymology

Shift from かぐわしい (kaguwashii).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of "香ばしい"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Continuative (連用形) 香ばしく ーばしく
ーばし
[kòóbáꜜshìkù]
[kòóbáshíꜜkù]
Terminal (終止形) 香ばしい ーばし [kòóbáshíꜜì]
Attributive (連体形) 香ばしい ーばし [kòóbáshíꜜì]
Key constructions
Informal negative 香ばしくない ーばしくない
ーばしくない
[kòóbáꜜshìkùnàì]
[kòóbáshíꜜkùnàì]
Informal past 香ばしかった ーばしかった
ーばしかった
[kòóbáꜜshìkàttà]
[kòóbáshíꜜkàttà]
Informal negative past 香ばしくなかった ーばしくなかった
ーばしくなかった
[kòóbáꜜshìkùnàkàttà]
[kòóbáshíꜜkùnàkàttà]
Formal 香ばしいです ーばしいです [kòóbáshíꜜìdèsù]
Conjunctive 香ばしくて ーばしくて
ーばしくて
[kòóbáꜜshìkùtè]
[kòóbáshíꜜkùtè]
Conditional 香ばしければ ーばしければ
ーばしければ
[kòóbáꜜshìkèrèbà]
[kòóbáshíꜜkèrèbà]

Adjective

(こう)ばしい • (kōbashii) かうばしい (kaubasii)?-i (adverbial (こう)ばしく (kōbashiku))

  1. fragrant, aromatic
  2. (Internet slang) dubious, suspicious; cringy; insane, crazy
    Synonyms: 怪しい (ayashii, dubious, suspicious), 胡散臭い (usankusai, dubious, suspicious); イタい (itai, cringy); あたおか (ataoka na, insane, crazy)

Inflection

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 香ばしい”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. 香・芳”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten) (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  4. Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. 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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