わわる

Japanese

Alternative spellings
騒る (archaic, rare)
叫る (archaic, rare)

Etymology

Verb derived from imitative onomatopoeia わわ (wawa, in the manner of many people talking noisily, adverb).[1]

First cited to the Nippo Jisho, circa 1603-1604.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɰᵝa̠ɰᵝa̠ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

Verb

わわる • (wawaru) intransitive yodan

  1. [from 1603] (archaic, possibly obsolete) to raise one's voice, to speak noisily, to yell, to shout

Conjugation

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See also

References

  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. わわる”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten) (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, entry available via Google Books here
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