ビートルズ

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English Beatles.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ビートルズ [bíꜜìtòrùzù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [bʲiːto̞ɾɯ̟zɨ]

Proper noun

ビートルズ • (Bītoruzu) 

1. Beatles (rock music quartet)

References

• Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
• “ビートルズ”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
• “ビートルズ”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[2] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006