ハブる

Japanese

Etymology

Derived by appending the verb-forming suffix る (-ru) to noun ハブ (habu, “someone who is left out of a group”), itself a shortening of noun form 省き (habuki, “omission”), in turn from verb 省く (habuku, “to omit”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ha̠bɯ̟ᵝɾɯ̟ᵝ]

Verb

ハブる or はぶる • (haburu) godan (stem ハブり (haburi), past ハブった (habutta))

  1. (informal) to leave out someone from a group

Conjugation

References

  1. “はぶる”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
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