猩々蝿

Japanese

Kanji in this term
猩	猩	蝿
しょう Hyōgai	しょう > じょう Hyōgai	はえ > ばえ Hyōgai
goon		kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
猩猩蠅 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

猩々(しょうじょう) (shōjō, “heavy drinker”) + 蝿(はえ) (hae, “fly”). The hae changes to bae as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Noun

猩(しょう)々(じょう)蝿(ばえ) or 猩々蝿(ショウジョウバエ) • (shōjōbae) 

1. fruit fly, a fly in the family Drosophilidae

   Synonym: (dialectal, Kagoshima) 糠蝿 (nukabe)