<entry id="2182784" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2804640</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>美ら</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ちゅら</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&adj-f;</pos>
<dial>&rkb;</dial>
<gloss>beautiful</gloss>
<gloss>pretty</gloss>
<gloss>lovely</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2013-12-16 23:45:17" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Hendrik</upd_name>
<upd_refs>If you search for expressions like
美ら海, 美ら島, 美ら月, or 美らさん, you'll see that this usage is ubiquitous... :-)</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2013-12-17 02:08:29" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Indeed, and from WWW-evidence it's most commonly read ちゅら not ちゅうら. It's not an い adjective, of course.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -8,0 +8,3 @@
+&lt;reb&gt;ちゅら&lt;/reb&gt;
+&lt;/r_ele&gt;
+&lt;r_ele&gt;
@@ -11,1 +14,1 @@
-&lt;pos&gt;&amp;adj-i;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;adj-f;&lt;/pos&gt;
@@ -13,1 +16,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;(from Ryuku lang.) beautiful&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;s_inf&gt;from Ryuku lang.&lt;/s_inf&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;beautiful&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2013-12-18 02:13:15" stat="A">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>thought for sure i added this before i went to okinawa last year</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -16,1 +16,1 @@
-&lt;s_inf&gt;from Ryuku lang.&lt;/s_inf&gt;
+&lt;dial&gt;&amp;rkb;&lt;/dial&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2013-12-21 00:57:49" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Hendrik</upd_name>
<upd_detl>Actually, "Ryukyuan" ("Ryukyu language") is not a dialect of Japanese but a separate language (in the same language family as Japanese, though) with several main (area) dialects. Calling it a dialect is like calling Italian a dialect of Spanish. :-)</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2013-12-21 06:28:06" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Well, you probably know the old line that a language is a dialect with an army.
It's convenient to put 琉球語 and アイヌ語 in that category here.</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2014-01-28 03:12:28" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Hendrik</upd_name>
<upd_detl>Added a second xref.
Reason: Although 美ら is widely (and, as the first one of the cited websites shows, quite officially) used in Okinawa, i just heard from someone that etymologically the expression ちゅら (ちゅうら) derives from the same root as the old (obsolete?) Japanese 清ら 【きよら; けうら】, so i looked 清ら up on the web, and, yes, it is alive in Okinawa (the last cited reference gives a more detailed explanation)</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>Official usage of 美ら:
http://oki-churaumi.jp/
Contemporary manifestations of 清ら:
http://www.churashima.net/churabito/index.html 美ら島物語｜美ら島・清ら人
http://www.okitour.net/Column/sightseeing/kannkousisetu/00213/
http://i-uchina.com/emotional/post881/</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -15,0 +16 @@
+&lt;xref type="see" seq="2220810"&gt;清ら&lt;/xref&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2014-01-28 10:48:17" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Interesting.</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-04-02 23:58:23" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I can't find a source for ちゅうら.
Without an explanation, it isn't clear what relevance 清ら has to the entry. I don't think the x-ref is needed.
美ら and 美しい aren't etymologically related. I don't see a need for the 美しい x-ref.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -10,3 +9,0 @@
-&lt;r_ele&gt;
-&lt;reb&gt;ちゅうら&lt;/reb&gt;
-&lt;/r_ele&gt;
@@ -15,2 +11,0 @@
-&lt;xref type="see" seq="1486360"&gt;美しい&lt;/xref&gt;
-&lt;xref type="see" seq="2220810"&gt;清ら&lt;/xref&gt;
@@ -18,0 +14 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;pretty&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-04-04 12:04:07" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>