薔薇

薔薇

1. (botany) multiflora rose

• 玫瑰 (méigui)

薔薇 (bara, shōbi, sōbi): a rose.

From 茨 (ibara, “bramble, briar”), itself an alteration from earlier reading ubara of the same meaning. The reading mubara appears in Heian period sources, but ubara is older.[1]

The kanji is jukujikun (熟字訓), from Chinese 薔薇.

• (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) ば​ら [báꜜrà] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [ba̠ɾa̠]

• (bramble): 荊棘
• (rose): バラ

薔薇 (hiragana ばら, katakana バラ, rōmaji bara)

1. any shrub with thorns: a bramble, a briar
2. a thorny flower of the genus Rosa: a rose

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as バラ.

• 薔 (ば)薇 (ら)園 (えん) (baraen)

/sʲaubi/ → /ɕʲɔːbi/ → /ɕoːbi/

From Middle Chinese 薔薇 (MC d͡zɨɐŋ|ʃɨk̚ mˠiɪ|mʉi, literally “wild rose + kind of fern”).

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) しょ​ーび [shóꜜòbì] (Atamadaka – [1])[3][4]
  • IPA^(key): [ɕo̞ːbʲi]

薔薇 (hiragana しょうび, rōmaji shōbi, historical hiragana しやうび)

1. a thorny flower of the genus Rosa: a rose
2. a color scheme for 襲 (kasane, literally “layering”, a traditional style of layering robes or kimono), with crimson for the outer layer and purple for the inner layer

For the rose sense, the bara reading above is most common.

/saubi/ → /sɔːbi/ → /soːbi/

Uses the goon reading of sō for the first character, and the kan'on reading of bi for the second character. Appears to be a shift in reading from shōbi above.[4]

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) そ​ーび [sóꜜòbì] (Atamadaka – [1])[3][4]
  • IPA^(key): [so̞ːbʲi]

薔薇 (hiragana そうび, rōmaji sōbi, historical hiragana さうび)

1. a thorny flower of the genus Rosa: a rose
2. a color scheme for 襲 (kasane, literally “layering”, a traditional style of layering robes or kimono), with crimson for the outer layer and purple for the inner layer

For the rose sense, the bara reading above is most common.

薔薇 • (jangmi) (hangeul 장미)

1. Hanja form^? of 장미 (“rose”).