鶯張り

Japanese

鶯張り

Kanji in this term
鶯	張
うぐいす Hyōgaiji	は > ば Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 鶯 (uguisu, “Japanese bush warbler”) +‎ 張り (hari, “stretching”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 張る haru, "to stretch"), from the way that the floor creaks upon pressure. The hari changes to bari as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) うぐいすばり [ùgúísúbárí] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝɡɯ̟ᵝisɨᵝba̠ɾʲi]

Noun

鶯(うぐいす)張(ば)り • (uguisubari) ^{←うぐひすばり (ugufisubari)^?}

nightingale floor

References

Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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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[DJR-1] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[NHK-2] 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