Doubled (ぺらぺら) · #316 by frequency

ぺらぺら ペラペラ

fluently (speaking a foreign language)

Senses

  1. fluently (speaking a foreign language)
  2. incessantly (speaking), glibly, garrulously, volubly
  3. one after the other (flipping through pages)
  4. thin (paper, cloth, etc.), flimsy, weak

Family

Across, the shapes this root takes; down, light and heavy, the heavy forms marked with ゛.

Doubled-っと
Light ぺらぺらfluently (speaking a foreign language) ぺらっとflipping (e.g. a page)
Light へらへら(laughing) foolishly
Heavy べらべらnon-stop talking

See ぺらぺら on Jisho. JMdict priority ichi1.