韋駄天走り

Japanese

Kanji in this term
韋	駄	天	走
い Hyōgai	だ Grade: S	てん Grade: 1	はし > ばし Grade: 2
on'yomi	goon	on'yomi	kun'yomi

Etymology

Compound of 韋駄天 (idaten, “Skanda (Buddhism)”) +‎ 走り (hashiri, “running”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 走る hashiru, "to run"), from a story of Skanda running very fast to catch demons who had stolen holy relics.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] The hashiri changes to bashiri as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

First cited to 1719.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) いだてんばしり [ìdátéńbáꜜshìrì] (Nakadaka – [5])^[4]^[6]^[5]
IPA^(key): [ida̠tẽ̞mba̠ɕiɾʲi]

Noun

韋(い)駄(だ)天(てん)走(ばし)り • (idatenbashiri) ^{←ゐだてんばしり (widatenbasiri)^?}

[from 1719] running extremely fast

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 “韋駄天走”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
^ “韋駄天”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎^[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984
^ “韋駄天”, in 世界大百科事典第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)‎^[3] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

[KDJ2-1] 1.0 ^1.1 “韋駄天走”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006

[N-2] “韋駄天”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎^[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984

[SDHJ-3] “韋駄天”, in 世界大百科事典第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)‎^[3] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998

[DJR-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[SMK5-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[NHK-6] NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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