# kamikaze
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風(かみ​かぜ) (kami​kaze, “divine wind”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌkæ.mɪˈkɑː.zi/
* (General American) IPA: /ˌkɑ.mɪˈkɑː.zi/, [ˌkʰɑmɪˈkʰɑːzɪi̯]
* (emulating Japanese) IPA: /kɑː.mɪˈkɑː.zeɪ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

kamikaze (plural kamikazes)
* An attack requiring the suicide of the one carrying it out, especially when done with an aircraft.
* One who carries out a suicide attack, especially with an aircraft.
* A vehicle used for a suicide attack, especially an aircraft.
** 2020 February 12, Drachinifel, 8:16 from the start, in The Mark 14 Torpedo - Failure is Like Onions‎, archived from the original on 24 November 2022:Coupled with this were issues involving actually getting enough torpedoes out there to the fleet in the first place! Whilst they were a munition, a torpedo is far more complex and took far longer to build than a shell for a naval gun, even a battleship shell. Torpedoes, remember, are effectively small self-guiding kamikaze submarines, and, so, unless you have a large factory and an extensive production line going, you're only gonna see handfuls produced each year.
* (colloquial) One who takes excessive risks, as for example in a sporting event.
* A cocktail made of equal parts vodka, triple sec and lime juice.
* (surfing) A deliberate wipeout.

#### Derived terms

* kamikaze drone

#### See also

* hara-kiri
* hero
* juramentado
* martyr
* seppuku
* shaheed
* suicide
* suicide bomber

### Verb

kamikaze (third-person singular simple present kamikazes, present participle kamikazeing, simple past and past participle kamikazed)
* (transitive) To destroy (a ship, etc.) in a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
* (intransitive) To carry out a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
* (intransitive, slang) To fail disastrously.

#### Translations
### Adjective

kamikaze (not comparable)
* Suicidal, risking one's own life.
** 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic‎, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 June 2018:Sheathed in helmets, gloves, and jackets, they look more like manic video game figures than humans. They weave through traffic and around double-decker buses at kamikaze velocity.
* Having or showing reckless disregard for safety or personal welfare.

#### References

* Discussion of this term on Languagehat, a language blog

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [kə.miˈka.zə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ka.miˈka.ze]

### Noun

kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)
* kamikaze

## Czech
### Alternative forms

* kamikadze

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkamɪkazɛ]
* Rhymes: -azɛ

### Noun

kamikaze m anim
* kamikaze (one who makes an attack requiring his suicide, especially when done with an aircraft)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* kamikaze in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, “suicide flyer”, literally “divine wind”)).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.mi.kaz/, /ka.mi.ka.ze/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

kamikaze m or f by sense (plural kamikazes)
* kamikaze (person carrying out a suicide attack); suicide bomber

#### Derived terms

* drone kamikaze

#### See also

* attentat-suicide

### Further reading

* “kamikaze”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風(かみかぜ) (kamikaze, “divine wind”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kamikaze/

### Noun

kamikaze (plural kamikaze-kamikaze)
* the typhoons that saved Japan from invasion, divine wind
* a kamikaze, a suicide pilot in World War Two

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, “suicide flyer”, literally “divine wind”)).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.miˈka.ze/, /ka.miˈkad.d͡ze/
* Rhymes: -aze, -addze
* Hyphenation: ka‧mi‧kà‧ze

### Noun

kamikaze m (invariable)
* kamikaze

### See also

* attentatore

### References

* ↑ kamikaze in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Further reading

* kamikaze in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Japanese
### Romanization

kamikaze
* Rōmaji transcription of かみかぜ

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* camicase

### Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, “suicide flyer”, literally “divine wind”)).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌkã.miˈka.zi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌkã.miˈka.zi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˌka.miˈka.ze/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˌka.miˈka.zɨ/
* Hyphenation: ka‧mi‧ka‧ze

### Noun

kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)
* kamikaze

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kamikaze.

### Adjective

kamikaze m or f (plural kamikazes)
* kamikaze

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kamikaze.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French kamikaze.

### Noun

kamikaze n (uncountable)
* kamikaze

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, “suicide flyer”, literally “divine wind”)).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /kamiˈkaθe/ [ka.miˈka.θe]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /kamiˈkase/ [ka.miˈka.se]
* Rhymes: -aθe
* Rhymes: -ase
* Syllabification: ka‧mi‧ka‧ze

### Noun

kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)
* kamikaze
* ghost driver, wrong-way driver

### Further reading

* “kamikaze”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Noun

kamikaze
* kamikaze

#### Derived terms

* kamikazeattack
* kamikazedrönare
* kamikazepilot