払う

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Japanese[edit]

Kanji in this term
はら
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
拂う (kyūjitai)

Etymology[edit]

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE, with the phonetic man'yōgana spelling 波羅賦.[1][2]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "払う"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
払う [hàráꜜù]
Imperative (命令形) 払え [hàráꜜè]
Key constructions
Passive 払われる らわれ [hàráwáréꜜrù]
Causative 払わせる らわせ [hàráwáséꜜrù]
Potential 払える らえ [hàráéꜜrù]
Volitional 払おう らお [hàráóꜜò]
Negative 払わない らわない [hàráwáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 払わなかった らわなかった [hàráwáꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 払います らいま [hàráímáꜜsù]
Perfective 払った った [hàráꜜttà]
Conjunctive 払って って [hàráꜜttè]
Hypothetical conditional 払えば えば [hàráꜜèbà]

(western dialects or literary variant)

Verb[edit]

(はら) (harauはらふ (farafu)?transitive godan (stem (はら) (harai), past (はら)った (haratta))

  1. to drive away, to get rid of
    ()(はえ)(はら)
    te de hae o harau
    to whisk flies off
    蜘蛛(くも)()(はら)
    kumo no su o harau
    to remove spiderwebs
    ほこりを(はら)
    hokori o harau
    to get rid of the dust
  2. to give away, to pay
    給料(きゅうりょう)(はら)
    kyūryō o harau
    to pay salary
    犠牲(ぎせい)(はら)
    gisei o harau
    to make a sacrifice
  3. to empty
    部屋(へや)(はら)
    heya o harau
    to clear out the room
  4. (calligraphy) to write as a sweeping stroke to the bottom right ()
    Coordinate term: 止める

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References[edit]

  1. ^ 払・掃”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. ^
    720, Nihon Shoki, (The Age of the Gods, part 1):
    , text here (spelled in phonetic man'yōgana 波羅賦, pronounced parapu)
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  5. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN