English Explanatory Dictionary

Japanese

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Of, relating to, derived from, or characteristic of Japan, its people, language, or culture.
Of or relating to the Yamato people.

noun

A person living in or originating from Japan, or of Japanese ancestry.
Ellipsis of Japanese food.

name

A language that is primarily spoken in East Asia and is the official language of Japan.

Pronunciation

/ˌdʒæp.əˈniːz/ en-us-Japanese.ogg /ˈdʒæpᵊˌniz/

Word forms

Japanese more Japanese most Japanese Japaneses

Etymology

Etymology tree Hokkien 日本 /Ji̍t-púnbor. Malay Jepangbor. Portuguese Japãobor. ▲ Malay Jepangbor. Dutch Japanbor. English Japan Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Japanese From Japan + -ese after the model of earlier Portuguese japonês, New Latin japonensis, French japonais, etc.

Synonyms

Japonian Japonic Nipponese Nipponic Japanee Japanner Nihongo

Related words

Japan Japanophile Nipponize Jap Wiktionary’s coverage of Japanese terms

Derived words

anti-Japanese Hall's Japanese honeysuckle Japanese amberjack Japanese barberry Japanese bear Japanese beech Japanese black bear Japanese Bobtail Japanese bunching onion Japanese bush warbler Japanese cake Japanese chestnut Japanese climbing fern Japanese clock Japanese clover Japanese crab Japanese crested ibis Japanese deer Japanese dogwood Japanese dormouse Japanese earth Japanese encephalitis Japanese English Japanese fever Japanese flood fever Japanese full stop Japanese giant salamander Japanese honeysuckle Japanese iris Japanese ivy Japanese knotweed Japanese lacquer tree Japanese lantern Japanese lilac Japanese millet Japanese monkey Japanese nightingale Japanese pampas grass Japanese peanut Japanese pear Japanese pheasant Japanese pine Japanese pond smelt Japanese river fever Japanese rose Japanese scallop Japanese sea bass Japanese sea lion Japanese shield fern Japanese silkmoth Japanese slipper Japanese smelt Japanese spiny lobster Japanese spitz Japanese squash Japanese squirrel Japanese stiltgrass Japanese studies Japanese sumac Japanese theorem

Translations

Afrikaans: Japannees Afrikaans: Japans Albanian: japonez Arabic: يَابَانِيّ Armenian: ճապոնական Asturian: xaponés Azerbaijani: yapon Basque: japoniar Belarusian: япо́нскі Bengali: জাপানি Bulgarian: япо́нски Burmese: ဂျပန် Catalan: japonès Chinese Mandarin: 日本的 Chinese Mandarin: 日 Chinese Mandarin: 日式 Czech: japonský Danish: japansk Dutch: Japans Dutch: Japanse Dutch: Nippons Esperanto: japana Estonian: jaapani Faroese: japanskur Finnish: japanilainen Finnish: japaninkielinen French: japonais Friulian: gjaponês Galician: xaponés Galician: xaponesa Georgian: იაპონური German: japanisch Greek: ιαπωνικός Hawaiian: Kepanī Hawaiian: Iāpana Hebrew: יַפָּנִי Hindi: जापानी Hungarian: japán Icelandic: japanskur Indonesian: Jepang Interlingua: japonese Irish: Seapánach Italian: giapponese Italian: nipponico Japanese: 日本 Japanese: 日本の Japanese: 日 Japanese: 和 Kazakh: жапон Khmer: ជប៉ុន Korean: 일본(日本)의 Korean: 일 Korean: 왜 Northern Kurdish: japonî

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