Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
よろい
Jinmeiyō
ひた
Grade: 2
た(れ)
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Etymology edit

/joroɸi hitatare//joroi hitatare/

Compound of (yoroi, armor) +‎ 直垂 (hitatare, a two-piece set of clothing consisting of a thin single-layer robe on top, closed in front with a drawstring, tucked into hakama trousers).[1][2][3] The term appears in texts from the 1200s.[1]

Occasionally encountered with the reading yoroi-bitatare, where the hitatare changes to bitatare as an instance of rendaku (連濁).[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • (Tokyo) ろいひたたれ [yòróíhíꜜtàtàrè] (Nakadaka – [4])[2]
  • IPA(key): [jo̞ɾo̞içita̠ta̠ɾe̞]

Noun edit

(よろい)(ひた)(たれ) (yoroi hitatareよろひひたたれ (yorofifitatare)?

  1. a kind of narrow-sleeved hitatare worn as a layer under armor
    Synonym: (literally “four drawstrings) 四つの括り (yotsu no kukuri)

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN