はなばたけ

Japanese

Alternative spellings
花畑 花畠

Alternative forms

• (honorific) お花畑(はなばたけ) (o-hanabatake)

Etymology

From 花(はな) (hana) + 畑(はたけ) (hatake). The hatake changes to batake as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) はなばたけ [hànábáꜜtàkè] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [ha̠na̠ba̠ta̠ke̞]

Noun

はなばたけ • (hanabatake) ^{←はなばたけ (fanabatake)?}

1. field of flowers

Hyponyms

• (scientific terminology) お花畑(はなばたけ) (o-hanabatake, “alpine meadow”)