譬え話

Japanese

Kanji in this term
譬	話
たと Hyōgai	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)^?}

(rhetoric) a parable

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN