いろは
Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word いろは. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word いろは, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say いろは in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word いろは you have here. The definition of the word いろは will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofいろは, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
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
- mother
- 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 1, page 116:
- 母 尔雅云、母爲妣、卑履反、去聲之重、和名波々、日本紀私記云、以路波
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
- いろはのイ (iroha no i)
Etymology 2
| Alternative spellings |
|---|
| 伊呂波 以呂波 色葉 |
From a pangrammatic poem written in the mid-Heian period. The earliest textual reference is from 1079 CE.
Noun
- 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. | ||
| ||
| (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.) |