鎧直垂

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
鎧 直 垂
よろい
Jinmeiyō 		ひた
Grade: 2 		た(れ)
Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Etymology

/joroɸi hitatare/ → /joroi hitatare/

Compound of 鎧 (yoroi, “armor”) +‎ 直垂 (hitatare, “a two-piece set of clothing consisting of a thin single-layer robe on top, closed in front with a drawstring, tucked into hakama trousers”).[1][2][3] The term appears in texts from the 1200s.[1]

Occasionally encountered with the reading yoroi-bitatare, where the hitatare changes to bitatare as an instance of rendaku (連濁).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

鎧(よろい)直(ひた)垂(たれ) • (yoroi hitatare) ←よろひひたたれ (yorofifitatare)?

  1. a kind of narrow-sleeved hitatare worn as a layer under armor
    Synonym: (literally “four drawstrings”) 四つの括り (yotsu no kukuri)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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