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) (in Portuguese) :

¶ Item, Yacara. l, yacaramono. Hombre vidriado, y que por nada arma contiendas.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) やから [yàkárá] (Heiban – [0])
• 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)

Related terms

• 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”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ja̠ ka̠ɾa̠]

Conjunction

やから • (ya kara) 

1. Dialect form of だから (da kara)