Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
わざ
Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Etymology edit

From Old Japanese waza ("an act of intent"; in kanji, or ) + particle (to).[1][2]

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(わざ) (waza to

  1. on purpose, deliberately, intentionally
    • 1632, Diego Collado, Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium, page 5:
      A Conſilio . de propoſito, a poſta . vazàto .
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1867, James Curtis Hepburn, A Japanese and English Dictionary, page 520:
      Waza-to, ワザト, 態, adv. Intentionally, purposely, by design.

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References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN