English Explanatory Dictionary

kami

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An animistic god or spirit in the Shinto religion of Japan.
  2. The metaphysical causal generator of motion, life, or divinish aura.
noun
  1. A basic origami paper, usually printed with a colour or pattern on one side.
noun
  1. An ethnic and linguistic group in Morogoro Region, Tanzania.
name
  1. A Bantu language of Tanzania.
  2. A Niger-Congo language of Nigeria.

Word forms

kami kamis

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神 (kami, “god, spirit, deity”).

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