河原

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河原

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⟨kapa para⟩ → /kap̚para/ → ⟨kapara⟩ → /kaɸara/ → /kawara/

From Old Japanese.

Shift from a compound of 河 (kawa, “river”) +‎ 原 (hara, “plain”).^[1]

• (Tokyo) かわら (Heiban – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

河(かわ)原(ら) • (kawara) ^{←かはら (kafara)?}

1. a dry riverbed, especially of the 鴨川 (Kamogawa, “Kamo River”) in Kyoto
2. (colloquial) Short for 河原者 (kawaramono): a beggar
3. (colloquial) Short for 河原艾 (kawara yomogi): a species of wormwood, Artemisia capillaris

河(かわ)原(ら) • (Kawara) ^{←かはら (Kafara)?}

1. Kawara (a town in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan)
2. a surname

• 河原(かわらの)左(さ)大(だい)臣(じん) (Kawara no Sadaijin)

From 河 (kawa, “river”) +‎ 原 (hara, “plain”).

• IPA^(key):

河(かわ)原(はら) • (Kawahara) ^{←かははら (Kafafara)?}

1. a placename, especially:
   1. Kawahara (a former town in Tottori Prefecture, Japan, today merged with the city of Tottori)
   2. Kawahara (a train station in Yazu, Tottori Prefecture, Japan) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
2. a surname

• 河(かわ)原(はら)町(ちょう) (Kawahara-chō)

From 河 (kawa, “river”) +‎ 原 (hara, “plain”).

The hara changes to bara as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

• IPA^(key):

河(かわ)原(ばら) • (Kawabara) ^{←かはばら (Kafabara)?}

1. a surname

• 川原

Shift from a compound of 河 (kapa, “river”) +‎ 原 (para, “plain”),^[1] with either one of the pa syllables lost due to haplology.

河原 (kapara) (kana かはら)

1. a dry riverbed

• 天の河原 (ama no₂ kapara)
• 天の安の河原 (ama no₂ yasu no₂ kapara)

• Japanese: 河原 (kawara)