いろは

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Japanese

Etymology 1

⟨iro2ha⟩: */irəjpa//iropa//irofa//iroha/

From Old Japanese.

Compound of いろ (iro, kinship, same family) +‎ (ha, cognate with (haha, mother)).

Noun

いろは (iroha

  1. mother
    Synonyms: , お母さん
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Alternative spellings
伊呂波
以呂波
色葉
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From a pangrammatic poem written in the mid-Heian period. The earliest textual reference is from 1079 CE.

Noun

いろは (iroha

  1. a traditional ordering system for kana
  2. (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.
紅葉あかは
a female given name
(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.)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN