かきつばた

Japanese
Alternative spellings
杜若
燕子花

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) かきつ​ばた [kàkítsúꜜbàtà] (Nakadaka – [3])[2][4]
  • IPA(key): [ka̠kʲi̥t͡sɨᵝba̠ta̠]

Noun

かきつばた or カキツバタ • (kakitsubata) 

  1. Iris laevigata, the rabbit-ear iris

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as カキツバタ.

References
  1. Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. “かきつばた”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  4. 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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