わきばら

Japanese

Alternative spellings
脇腹わき腹

Etymology

From 脇(わき) (waki) + 腹(はら) (hara). The hara changes to bara as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) わきばら [wàkíbárá] (Heiban – [0])[1][2][3]
(Tokyo) わきばら [wàkíbáráꜜ] (Odaka – [4])[2]
IPA^(key): [ɰᵝa̠kʲiba̠ɾa̠]

Noun

わきばら • (wakibara) ^{←わきばら (wakibara)^?}

sides of the body around the stomach
a child born to somebody else than the father's legal wife; an illegitimate child

References

2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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