つばき

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Japanese

Pronunciation 1

Etymology 1

⟨tubaki1⟩ → */tubakʲi/ → /t͡subaki/

From Old Japanese. Appears in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[2]

Ultimate derivation unknown. Various theories exist, including:

  • Possibly from Old Japanese element つば (tsuba, “glossy, shiny”) + 木 (ki, “tree”).
    Although 艶 (tsuya, “gloss, shine”) is verifiable, つば (tsuba, “glossy, shiny”) does not appear in references.[1][3]
    Moreover, the final ki portion in the Old Japanese phonetic spelling of ⟨tubaki1⟩ does not match the ⟨ki2⟩ phonetic spelling for 木 (ki, “tree”).
  • Possibly a contraction from 艶葉木 (tsuya pa ki, literally “glossy leaf tree”), with rendaku changing the pa to ba.
    The shift from tsuya to just tsu would have had to occur even earlier than the Man'yōshū. There do not appear to be any other terms exhibiting this same shift.
    This theory also suffers from the same phonetic mismatch for the ki portion.
  • Possibly borrowed from Korean 동백 (dongbaek).
    The Korean term is derived from Chinese 冬柏. Considering the early appearance of this term in Japanese, the expected kanji-based reading in Japanese would have been tōhaku instead.
Noun

つばき or ツバキ • (tsubaki) 

  1. 椿, 山茶, 海石榴: the Japanese camellia, Camellia japonica
Proper noun

つばき or ツバキ • (Tsubaki) 

  1. a female given name
  2. 椿, 山茶: Lua error in Module:names at line 633: dot= and nodot= are no longer supported in Template:surname because a trailing period is no longer added by default; if you want it, add it explicitly after the template
  3. 椿, 山茶: a female given name
  4. 椿: a place name

Etymology 2

Readings of various names.

Proper noun

つばき or ツバキ • (Tsubaki) 

  1. 津波木, 津葉木, 鍔木, 椿木: Lua error in Module:names at line 633: dot= and nodot= are no longer supported in Template:surname because a trailing period is no longer added by default; if you want it, add it explicitly after the template
  2. 乙姫, 月羽希, 椿希, 椿樹, 椿生: a female given name
  3. 椿姫, 椿有, 翼希, 翼樹, 翼姫: a female given name
  4. 翼生: a male given name

Further reading

Pronunciation 2

Etymology

Derived as the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of now-obsolete verb 唾吐く (tsubaku, “to spit, to expectorate”), itself from 唾 (tsu, “saliva”) + 吐く (haku, “to expel from the mouth: to spit, to vomit, to exhale”).[1][3]

Noun

つばき or ツバキ • (tsubaki) 

  1. 唾: saliva, spit

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^
    c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 13, poem 3222:
    , text here
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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