態と

Japanese

Kanji in this term
態
わざ Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) わざと [wáꜜzà tò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
- IPA^(key): [ɰᵝa̠za̠ to̞]

Adverb

態と (hiragana わざと, rōmaji waza to)

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

態々 (わざわざ) (wazawaza)

Related terms

技 (わざ) (waza), 業 (わざ) (waza): an intentional act or action

References

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

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