やらはた

Japanese

Etymology

From やらず (yarazu, negative form of やる “do”) + 二十歳(はたち) (hatachi, “twenty years of age”). Attested from the 1980s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ja̠ɾa̠ha̠ta̠]

Noun

やらはた or ヤラハタ • (yarahata) 

1. (colloquial, informal) a person who has had no sexual experience before the age of 20; being sexually inexperienced after 20
   • 2006, Shinjō Mayu, Kaikan furēzu, volume 7, page 112:

     えー…それってヤラハタになっちゃうんじゃん？
     ヤラハタって？
     ヤラずにハタチっ
     ひどいっー

     Ē… sore tte yarahata ni natchaun jan?
     Yarahata tte?
     Yarazu ni hatachi '
     Hidoi '

     Um... wouldn’t that make you yarahata? Yarahata? A twenty year old virgin! That’s terrible!!

See also

• やらみそ (yaramiso)