Japanese

Alternative forms

• 均す

Verb

平す ‎(godan conjugation, hiragana ならす, romaji narasu)

1. to flatten, to level (the ground, etc.)
   • 720: Nihon Shoki

     爰以忌瓮、鎭坐於和珥武鐰坂上。則率精兵、進登那羅山而軍之。時官軍屯聚、而蹢跙草木。因以號其山、曰那羅山。蹢跙、此云布瀰那羅須。

   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3546)

     安乎楊木能　波良路可波刀尓　奈乎麻都等　西美度波久末受　多知度奈良須母

   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 20, poem 4491)

     於保吉宇美能　美奈曽己布可久　於毛比都都　毛婢伎奈良之思　須我波良能佐刀

   • c. 1177-1188: Iroha Jiruishō (Vol. 5, Na 20 reverse)

     鏟　ナラス 平大石也

   • 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho (page 315)

     Giuo narasu. (地を均す) 土地を平らにする.

2. to make things equal; to average

References

• Doi, Tadao (1603–1604) Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 978-4-00-080021-1, published 1980.
• Sakamoto, Tarō; Ienaga Saburō, Inoue Mitsusada, Ōno Susumu (1965) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei: Nihon Shoki (vol. 1), Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-000-60067-2, page 245
• Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada; Rikio Kudō; Masao Ōtani; Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 2: Man’yōshū 2 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 978-4-00-240002-0, published 2000.
• Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada; Rikio Kudō; Masao Ōtani; Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 4: Man’yōshū 4 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 978-4-00-240004-4, published 2003.
• Tadakane, Tachibana; Atsuo Masamune (ed.) (c. 1177-1188) Iroha Jiruishō (in Japanese), Kazama Shobō, published 1971