かばしら

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Japanese

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Alternative spelling
蚊柱

Etymology

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Compound of 蚊 (ka, “mosquito”) +‎ 柱 (hashira, “column, pillar”). From the way that a swarm of mosquitoes tends to gather in a roughly vertical shape.[1][2] The hashira changes to bashira as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

First cited to the early 1200s.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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かばしら • (kabashira) 

  1. [from early 1200s] a "mosquito column": a swarm of mosquitoes

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “蚊柱”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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