わらいばなし

Japanese
Alternative spellings
笑い話
笑話 (dated)

Etymology

From 笑(わら)い (warai, “連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 笑(わら)う (warau).”) + 話(はなし) (hanashi). The hanashi changes to banashi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Module error: The module returned a nil value. It is supposed to return an export table.

Noun

わらいばなし • (waraibanashi) ←わらひばなし (warafibanasi)?

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