馬鹿馬鹿しい

Japanese

Kanji in this term
馬 鹿 馬 鹿
ば
Grade: 2		 か
Grade: S		 ば
Grade: 2		 か
Grade: S

Alternative forms

  • バカバカしい, 莫迦々々しい

Etymology

Reduplication of 馬鹿 (baka, “foolish, stupid; a fool, an idiot”) + adjective-forming suffix しい (-shii). Attested from at least the early 1800s,[1], but likely older, as the しい (-shii) suffix was much more productive earlier, such as during the Heian period (794–1185).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ばかばかし​い [bàkábákáshíꜜì] (Nakadaka – [5])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ba̠ka̠ba̠ka̠ɕii]

Adjective

馬鹿馬鹿しい (-i inflection, hiragana ばかばかしい, rōmaji bakabakashii)

  1. extremely foolish, ridiculous, silly (contrary to reason or propriety)
  2. blatant, extreme, outrageous

Inflection

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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