川端

Japanese
Kanji in this term
川 端
かわ
Grade: 1		 はた > ばた
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

川(かわ) (kawa, “river”) + 端(はた) (hata, “edge”)

Noun

川(かわ)端(ばた) • (kawabata) ←かはばた (kafabata)?

  1. Riverbank.
    • 1593: Esopono fabulas (Aesop's Fables), "Vôcameto, fitcujino tatoyeno coto" (The Wolf and The Lamb)
      Aru cauabatani vôcamemo, fitcujimo mizzuuo nomuni, ...
      [ある川端にオオカメも、ヒツジも水を飲むに、…]
      On a certain riverbank, a wolf and a sheep go to drink water)
    • 1632: Diego Collado, Dictionarium Sive Thesauri Linguae Iaponicae Compendium, p. 117 (mislabelled 118)
      Ripa, æ: ribera y orilla de rio. cavãbata.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

Proper noun

川(かわ)端(ばた) • (Kawabata) 

  1. a surname
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