譬え話

Japanese
Kanji in this term
譬 話
たと
Hyōgaiji		 はなし > ばなし
Grade: 2
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
例え話
たとえ話

Etymology

From 譬(たと)え (tatoe, “example”) + 話(はなし) (hanashi, “narrative”). The hanashi changes to banashi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) たとえば​なし [tàtóébáꜜnàshì] (Nakadaka – [4])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [ta̠to̞e̞ba̠na̠ɕi]

Noun

譬(たと)え話(ばなし) • (tatoebanashi) ←たとへばなし (tatofebanasi)?

  1. (rhetoric) a parable

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 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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