態と

Japanese

Kanji in this term
わざ
Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Etymology

From Old Japanese waza ("an act of intent"; in kanji, or ) + particle (to).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Adverb

態と (hiragana わざと, rōmaji waza to)

  1. on purpose, deliberately, intentionally
    • 1632: Diego Collado, Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium, p. 5
      A Conſilio . de propoſito, a poſta . vazàto .
    • 1867: James Curtis Hepburn, A Japanese and English Dictionary, p. 520
      Waza-to, ワザト, 態, adv. Intentionally, purposely, by design.

Synonyms

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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