やから

Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative spellings
族
輩

From 家(や) (ya, “house”) + 柄(から) (kara, “kinship”).

Nippo Jisho recorded a dialectal sence as "someone who complains or provokes a dispute".

1603 – 1604, Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Nippo Jisho) :
¶ Item, Yacara. l, yacaramono. Hombre vidriado, y que por nada arma contiendas.

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) やから [yàkárá] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠ka̠ɾa̠]

Noun

やから • (yakara) 

  1. 族: (etymology, archaic, obsolete) people of the same lineage; family, clan, kin
  2. 輩: (chiefly derogatory) same kind people; a set, a lot, fellows
    Synonyms: 連中 (renchū), 奴等 (yatsura), 徒 (to)
    不(ふ)逞(てい)の輩(やから) ― futei no yakara ― lawless people
  3. (dialectal) dissatisfaction, complaint, or someone who complains or provokes a dispute [from early 17th c.]
    あんやたぁ、飲(の)むと、やからんじょう言(い)う
    an yatā, nomuto, yakara njō iu
    That guy always complains when he get drunk. (Ōita dialect)
  • 家(いえ)柄(がら) (iegara, “social standing of a family”)
  • ガラが悪(わる)い (gara ga warui, “ill-bred, vulgar, boorish”)
  • 親(う)族(から) (ukara, “(archaic) blood relative”)
  • 輩(ともがら) (tomogara, “(archaic) friend, peer”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ja̠ ka̠ɾa̠]

Conjunction

やから • (ya kara) 

  1. Dialect form of だから (da kara)

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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