Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
そばだ
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
聳つ
稜立つ

Etymology edit

Compound of (soba) +‎ 立つ (tatsu). The tatsu reading for 立つ changes to datsu as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [so̞ba̠da̠t͡sɨᵝ]

Verb edit

(そばだ) (sobadatsuintransitive godan (stem (そばだ) (sobadachi), past (そばだ)った (sobadatta))

  1. 聳つ, 稜立つ: to tower, to rise, to soar
  2. 聳つ, 稜立つ: (idiomatic) to cause offense

Conjugation edit

See also edit