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Japanese
Etymology 1
⟨iro2ha⟩: */irəjpa/ → /iropa/ → /irofa/ → /iroha/
From Old Japanese.
Compound of いろ (iro, “kinship, same family”) + は (ha, cognate with 母 (haha, “mother”)).
Noun
いろは • (iroha)
- mother
- Synonyms: 母, お母さん
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From a pangrammatic poem written in the mid-Heian period. The earliest textual reference is from 1079 CE.
Noun
いろは • (iroha)
- a traditional ordering system for kana
- (dated) the rudiments, the fundamentals, the basics (of a subject), the ABCs
Etymology 3
For pronunciation and definitions of いろは – see the following entry.
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(This term, いろは (iroha), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.) For a list of all kanji read as いろは, see Category:Japanese kanji read as いろは.)
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