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いは

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Japanese

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Etymology 1

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ipa → iɸa → iwa. Compound of (i, emphatic marker) and (wa, focus marker). As -i was archaic even in Old Japanese, -wa was attached to supplement it.

Particle

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いは (iwa

  1. emphatic nominative case marker
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 3, poem 237:
      不敢雖謂 話礼ゝゝ常 詔許曽 志斐伊波奏 強話登言
      INA TO2 IPE2DO2 KATAre KATAre to2 NO2RASE ko2so2 sipi2 i pa MAWOSE SIPI2KATARI TO2 NO2RU
      Even though I said no, [she] keeps talking and talking. When [she] talks about sipï, I talk about compelling.
  2. pronominal; person or thing; one
    • 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict 45)
      伊波、捨伊波
      KO2 wo TAMOTU ipa TATAPE2 wo ITAsi SUTURU ipa SOSIRI wo MANEKI1tu
      To hold this is to praise it; to throw it away is to have had a bad mouth.

See also

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References

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Etymology 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of いは – see the following entries.
伊波いなみ
[proper noun] a surname
(This term, いは (iha), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as いは, see Category:Japanese kanji read as いは.)

(The following entry is uncreated: 伊覇.)