English Explanatory Dictionary

Nagasaki

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan, famous as the country's early modern entrepot and for its nuclear bombing on 9 August 1945 at the end of World War II.
  2. The atomic bombing of said city.
  3. A prefecture of Japan.

Pronunciation

/ˌnɑːɡəˈsɑːki/ /ˌnæɡəˈsaːki/ /ˌnaːɡəˈsaːki/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Nagasaki.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Zazollo-Nagasaki.wav

Word forms

Nagasaki Nangasaki Nangasacq Nangasac

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 長崎(ながさき) (Nagasaki).

Translations

Arabic: نَاغَاسَاكِي Arabic: نَاجَازَاكِي Armenian: Նագասակի Belarusian: Нагаса́кі Bulgarian: Нагаса́ки Carpathian Rusyn: Наґаса́кі Chinese Mandarin: 長崎 /长崎 Czech: Nagasaki Finnish: Nagasaki French: Nagasaki Georgian: ნაგასაკი German: Nagasaki German: Nangasaki Greek: Ναγκασάκι Hebrew: נגסאקי Hindi: नागासाकी Hungarian: Nagaszaki Japanese: 長崎 Korean: 나가사키 Korean: 나가사끼 Latin: Nagasacium Latin: Nagasaki Lithuanian: Nagasãkis Macedonian: Нагаса́ки Marathi: नागासाकी Persian: ناکازاکی Persian: ناگازاکی Polish: Nagasaki Portuguese: Nagasaki Portuguese: Nagasáqui Portuguese: Nangasáqui Portuguese: Nangasaque Russian: Нагаса́ки Serbo-Croatian: Нагасаки Tajik: Нагасаки Tamil: நாகசாகி Thai: นะงะซะกิ Turkish: Nagasaki Ukrainian: Наґаса́кі Ukrainian: Нагаса́кі Uyghur: ناگاساكى Vietnamese: Nagasaki
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