言い回す

Japanese

Kanji in this term
言 回
い
Grade: 2
まわ
Grade: 2
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
言回す

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) いいまわ​す [ìímáwáꜜsù] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • IPA(key): [iima̠ɰᵝa̠sɨᵝ]

Verb

言(い)い回(まわ)す • (iimawasu) ←いひまはす (ifimafasu)?transitive godan (stem 言(い)い回(まわ)し (iimawashi), past 言(い)い回(まわ)した (iimawashita))

  1. to express skillfully; to express in a clever way
  2. to make widely known
  3. to say indirectly

Conjugation

See also

References

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