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召し上がる
めしあがる
- flat (heiban)
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 4
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).
-- honorific form of 食べる (たべる) and 飲む (のむ) --
An honorific “eat” is “take” plus “rise up” — each already honorific.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
もう１杯召し上がれ。
Have another cup.
何を召し上がりますか。
What would you like to eat?
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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.
- “Compound of 召し (meshi, “taking”, stem of Old Japanese honorific verb mesu, “to see, to look at”, by extension an honorific for “to take, to eat”) + 上がる (agaru, “to rise”, used honorifically to mean “to take up, to eat”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 召し上がる (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).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Derivation
- A word built from a stem plus a suffix or prefix.