はるばる

Japanese

Alternative spellings
遥々遥遥

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) はるばる [hàrúbáꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
(Tokyo) はるばる [hàrúꜜbàrù] (Nakadaka – [2])[1]
IPA^(key): [ha̠ɾɯ̟ᵝba̠ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

Adverb

はるばる • (harubaru) ^{←はるばる (farubaru)^?}

from far way, all the way from
- 1906, Natsume Sōseki, Botchan‎:
  
  そんなえらい人(ひと)が月(げっ)給(きゅう)四(よん)十(じゅう)円(えん)ではるばるこんな田舎(いなか)へくるもんか。
  Sonna erai hito ga gekkyū yonjū en de harubaru konna inaka e kuru mon ka.
  No man with such admirable qualities would come so far away for only 40 yen a month!
- 1965, “函館(はこだて)の女(ひと) (Hakodate no hito)”, 星野哲郎(ほしのてつろう) (Hoshino Tetsurō) (lyrics), performed by 北島三郎(きたじまさぶろう) (Kitajima Saburō):
  
  はるばるきたぜ　函(はこ)館(だて)へ
  harubaru kita ze Hakodate e
  To Hakodate I have arrived, from far, far away

References

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

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