English Explanatory Dictionary

Osaka

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The capital city of Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
  2. A prefecture on the island of Honshū, Japan.
  3. A surname from Japanese.

Pronunciation

/əʊˈsɑːkə/ /əʊˈsækə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Osaka.wav /oʊˈsɑːkə/ /oʊˈsækə/

Word forms

Osaka Ōsaka

Etymology

From Japanese 大(おお)阪(さか) (Ōsaka, literally “large hill”) — the slope up to the Uemachi Plateau, where Osaka Castle sits.

Derived words

Osakan

Translations

Amharic: ኦሳካ Arabic: أُوسَاكَا Armenian: Օսակա Bengali: ওসাকা Bulgarian: О́сака Burmese: အိုဆာကာ Cherokee: ᎣᏌᎧ Chinese Cantonese: 大阪 Chinese: 大阪 Chinese Mandarin: 大阪 Czech: Ósaka Dutch: Osaka Esperanto: Osako Estonian: Osaka Finnish: Osaka French: Osaka French: Ōsaka West-Frisian: Osaka Georgian: ოსაკა German: Osaka Greek: Οσάκα Hebrew: אוֹסָקָה Hindi: ओसाका Hungarian: Oszaka Indonesian: Osaka Irish: Ósaca Italian: Osaka Japanese: 大阪 Japanese: 大阪市 Khmer: អូសាកា Korean: 오사카 Korean: 오사까 Latin: Ōsaca Latvian: Osaka Lithuanian: Osaka Macedonian: Оса́ка Marathi: ओसाका Nepali: ओसाका Occitan: Osaka Persian: اوساکا Polish: Osaka Portuguese: Osaka Portuguese: Osaca Romanian: Osaka
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