大騒ぎ

Japanese
Kanji in this term
大 騒
おお
Grade: 1		 さわ
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 大 (ō, “big, large”) +‎ 騒ぎ (sawagi, “noise, commotion”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 騒ぐ sawagu, “to be noisy, to make a commotion”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

大騒ぎ (hiragana おおさわぎ, rōmaji ōsawagi, historical hiragana おほさわぎ)

  1. an uproar, a brouhaha

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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