姥捨て

Japanese

Kanji in this term
姥	捨
うば Jinmeiyō	す Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Kun’yomi
- IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝba̠ sɨᵝte̞]

Etymology

From 姥捨山 (うばすてやま) (Ubasute Yama), according to legend a place where old people were abandoned, from 姥 (うば) (uba, “old woman”) + 捨 (す)てる (suteru, “to abandon, throw away”).

Noun

姥捨て (hiragana うばすて, rōmaji ubasute)

granny dumping, the practice of abandoning older people
Synonym: 棄老 (kirō)
- 2017 January 6, Nobuo Ikeda, “‘Ubasute’ to iu toshi densetsu [The ‘ubasute’ urban legend]”, in Agora‎:
  
  人口問題 (じんこうもんだい)を解決 (かいけつ)した方 (ほう)法 (ほう)は、姥捨 (うばす)てとは逆 (ぎゃく)の子 (こ)捨 (す)てである。
  Jinkō mondai o kaiketsu shita hōhō wa, ubasute to wa gyaku no kosute dearu.
  The resolution of population problems was the opposite of ubasute, kosute (child abandoning).

References

Martin Collick, David P. Dutcher, Souichi Tanabe, and Minori Kaneko (2004) Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary 5th edition, Tokyo: Kenkyūsha.

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