🌏 Region(s): Chugoku (Hiroshima), Kyushu (Miyazaki)
せわしぃ・せわしい【忙しい】 : sewashii | define meaning
sewashii
Definition
I-Adjective
- Annoying; noisy; irritating; unbearable; importunate
Etymology
Cognate with the pan-Kyushu forms せからしい sekarashii and せからしか sekarashika, as well as the Kagoshima variant せからし sekarashi and the Hiroshima and Miyazaki form せわしい sewashii "annoying; noisy; irritating". Also cognate to Kagoshima そがらし sogarashi and そがらしか sogarashika meaning both "overwhelming (amount)" and "annoying; noisy"; and the standard Japanese adjective せわしい【忙しい】 sewashii "busy; hectic". Ultimately from せく【急く】 seku "to be busy", らし rashi "-like; seeming", and the adjectival ending い -i or, in Western Kyushu, か -ka.
Spelling
Orthography | Form |
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Kanji | 忙しい |
Kana | せわしぃ せわしい |
Romanization | sewashii |
意味:うるさい【煩い】、さわがしい【騒がしい】、やかましい【喧しい】