忘れな草

Japanese

Kanji in this term
忘	草
わす Grade: 6	くさ > ぐさ Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

忘 (わす)れな (wasurena, archaic negative form of verb 忘 (わす)れる (wasureru, “to forget”)) + 草 (くさ) (kusa, “grass”)

Pronunciation

Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) わすれなぐさ [wàsúrénáꜜgùsà] (Nakadaka – [4])[1][2][3]
- IPA^(key): [ɰᵝa̠sɨᵝɾe̞na̠ɡɯ̟ᵝsa̠]

Alternative forms

Noun

忘れな草 (hiragana わすれなぐさ, katakana ワスレナグサ, rōmaji wasurenagusa)

forget-me-not

References

2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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