やから

Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative spellings

From () (ya, house) + (から) (kara, kinship).

Nippo Jisho recorded a dialectal sence as "someone who complains or provokes a dispute".

1603 – 1604, Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Nippo Jisho) (in Portuguese) :
¶ Item, Yacara. l, yacaramono. Hombre vidriado, y que por nada arma contiendas.

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) から [yàkárá] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠ka̠ɾa̠]

Noun

やから • (yakara) 

  1. : (etymology, archaic, obsolete) people of the same lineage; family, clan, kin
  2. : (chiefly derogatory) same kind people; a set, a lot, fellows
    Synonyms: 連中 (renchū), 奴等 (yatsura), (to)
    ()(てい)(やから)futei no yakaralawless people
  3. (dialectal) dissatisfaction, complaint, or someone who complains or provokes a dispute [from early 17th c.]
    あんやたぁ、()むと、やからんじょう()
    an yatā, nomuto, yakara njō iu
    That guy always complains when he get drunk. (Ōita dialect)
  • (いえ)(がら) (iegara, social standing of a family)
  • ガラが(わる) (gara ga warui, ill-bred, vulgar, boorish)
  • ()(から) (ukara, (archaic) blood relative)
  • (ともがら) (tomogara, (archaic) friend, peer)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ja̠ ka̠ɾa̠]

Conjunction

やから • (ya kara) 

  1. Dialect form of だから (da kara)

References

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