香ばしい

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
こう
Grade: 4
goon
Alternative spellings
芳ばしい
馨しい (archaic)

Etymology

Shift from かぐわしい (kaguwashii).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of 「香ばしい
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Continuative (連用形) 香ばしく ーばしく
ーばし

Terminal (終止形) 香ばしい ーばし
Attributive (連体形) 香ばしい ーばし
Key constructions
Informal negative 香ばしくない ーばしくない
ーばしくない

Informal past 香ばしかった ーばしかった
ーばしかった

Informal negative past 香ばしくなかった ーばしくなかった
ーばしくなかった

Formal 香ばしいです ーばしいです
Conjunctive 香ばしくて ーばしくて
ーばしくて

Conditional 香ばしければ ーばしければ
ーばしければ

Adjective

(こう)ばしい (kōbashiiかうばしい (kaubasii)?-i (adverbial (こう)ばしく (kōbashiku))

  1. fragrant, aromatic
  2. (Internet slang) dubious, suspicious; cringy; insane, crazy
    Synonyms: 怪しい (ayashii, dubious, suspicious), 胡散臭い (usankusai, dubious, suspicious); イタい (itai, cringy); あたおか (ataoka na, insane, crazy)

Inflection

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 香ばしい”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. ^ 香・芳”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  4. 4.0 4.1 Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. 5.0 5.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN