鼾く

Japanese

Kanji in this term
鼾
いび Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Etymology

Originally a compound of 息 (i, “breath, breathing”) +‎ 引く (hiku, “to pull, to draw”).^[1]^[2] The hiku changes to biku as an instance of rendaku (連(れん)濁(だく)).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ibʲikɯ̟]

Verb

鼾(いび)く • (ibiku) intransitive godan (stem 鼾(いび)き (ibiki), past 鼾(いび)いた (ibiita))

(probably obsolete) to snore

Usage notes

This is more commonly expressed using the verbal phrases 鼾を掻く (ibiki o kaku, literally “to make a snoring sound”) or 鼾を立てる (ibiki o tateru, literally “to raise a snore, to put up a snore”).

Conjugation

Conjugation of "鼾く" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	鼾か	いびか	ibika
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	鼾き	いびき	ibiki
Shūshikei ("terminal")	鼾く	いびく	ibiku
Rentaikei ("attributive")	鼾く	いびく	ibiku
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	鼾け	いびけ	ibike
Meireikei ("imperative")	鼾け	いびけ	ibike
Key constructions
Passive	鼾かれる	いびかれる	ibikareru
Causative	鼾かせる鼾かす	いびかせるいびかす	ibikaseru ibikasu
Potential	鼾ける	いびける	ibikeru
Volitional	鼾こう	いびこう	ibikō
Negative	鼾かない	いびかない	ibikanai
Negative continuative	鼾かず	いびかず	ibikazu
Formal	鼾きます	いびきます	ibikimasu
Perfective	鼾いた	いびいた	ibiita
Conjunctive	鼾いて	いびいて	ibiite
Hypothetical conditional	鼾けば	いびけば	ibikeba

Synonyms

鼾(いびき)する (ibiki suru)

Derived terms

鼾(いびき) (ibiki): snoring, a snore

References

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[KDJ-1] Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

[DJR-2] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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