あおくさい

Japanese

Alternative spelling
青臭い

Etymology

From (あお) (ao) + (くさ) (kusai).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) おくさ [àókúsáꜜì] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • IPA(key): [a̠o̞kɯ̟ᵝsa̠i]

Adjective

あおくさい • (aokusai) あをくさい (awokusai)?-i (adverbial あおくさく (aokusaku))

  1. smelling of vegetation
  2. green (unexperienced)

Inflection

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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