卒塔婆

Japanese

Etymology 1

    Kanji in this term
    卒 塔 婆
    そつ > そ
    Grade: 4     		とう
    Grade: S     		ば
    Grade: S
    irregular on'yomi goon
    Alternative spellings
    率塔婆
    窣堵婆

    From Middle Chinese 卒塔婆 (MC tswit|tshwot|tswot thap ba), in turn a transliteration of Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa, “heap, mound, relic-shrine, summit”).[1][2][3][4]

    The length of the medial /-o-/ vowel has apparently varied somewhat over time. First cited to a text from 850, with the spelling 窣堵婆 (sotoba?).[1] The short-"o" reading sotoba appears to be more common in modern usage.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    卒(そ)塔(とう)婆(ば) • (sotōba) ←そたふば (sotafuba)?

    1. [from 850] (Buddhism) stupa (structure housing Buddhist relics), dagoba
    2. [from 1028] (Buddhism) wooden grave tablet

    Etymology 2

      Kanji in this term
      卒 塔 婆
      そつ > そ
      Grade: 4       		とう > と
      Grade: S       		ば
      Grade: S
      irregular goon
      Alternative spellings
      率塔婆
      卒都婆
      率都婆

      Possibly a sound shift from sotōba. Then again, the length of the medial /-o-/ vowel has apparently varied somewhat over time. First cited to a text from 850, with the spelling 窣堵婆 (sotoba?).[1] The short-"o" reading sotoba appears to be more common in modern usage.

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      卒(そ)塔(と)婆(ば) • (sotoba) 

      1. [from 850] (Buddhism) stupa (structure housing Buddhist relics), dagoba
      2. [from 1028] (Buddhism) wooden grave tablet
      Derived terms
      • 町石(ちょうせき)卒塔婆(そとば) (chōseki sotoba)

      See also

      • 舎(しゃ)利(り)塔(とう) (sharitō)

      References

      1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “卒都婆・卒塔婆・率都婆”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
      2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
      3. ^ “卒塔婆”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
      4. ^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
      5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
      6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 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
      This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.