First opened Sunday, September 2, 2007
放る
ほうる
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
to throw, to fling; to abandon
Hōru took five steps from papur to hōru.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
Written with 放
In a sentence
その車は何週間も放ってある。
The car has been kicking around the roadside for weeks.
君が虐待されているのを放ってはいられない。
I will not allow you to be ill-treated.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “/papur/- → /ɸaɸur/- → */ɸawur/- → /ɸaur/- → /ɸoːr/- → /hoːr/-”
Source: Wiktionary: 放る (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
Other readings of 放る on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not ほうる. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
ひる
- “pir- > ɸir- > çir-. Cognate with verb 嚔る (hiru, “to sneeze”).”
What the labels mean
- Sound change
- The pronunciation shifted over the centuries.