# kabuki
## English
### Alternative forms

* Kabuki

### Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 歌舞伎 (kabuki).

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /kəˈbuːki/
* (UK) IPA: /kəˈbuːkiː/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Hyphenation: ka‧bu‧ki
* Rhymes: -uːki

### Noun

kabuki (uncountable)
* (often capitalized) A form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies.
** 2007 July 19, Charles Isherwood, “Guilty Pleasures of Comic Kabuki”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:Despite its self-consciously assumed irreverence toward traditional practices, “Hokaibo” incorporates all the essential elements of classic Kabuki: the all-male company of actors, exaggerated makeup, the stomping dances, the arresting, cross-eyed poses at moments of high drama that are recognized and applauded.
** 2023 June 27, AFP, “Japanese kabuki actor arrested for allegedly assisting in his mother’s suicide”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:Ichikawa, whose real name is Takahiko Kinoshi, made his kabuki debut in 1980 and went on to become one of the country’s most renowned performers.
* (by extension, US) A stylized, pretentious, and often hollow performance; (especially) political posturing.
** 2005 June 12, Michael Kinsley, “No Smoking Gun”, in Washington Post‎:The whole "weapons of mass destruction" concern was phony from the start, and the drama about inspections was just kabuki: going through the motions.
** 2010 March 14, Jon Lackman, “It’s Time To Retire Kabuki: The word doesn’t mean what pundits think it does”, in Slate‎:Health care reform recently brought Kabuki to mind for both Rush Limbaugh—“what you have here is ‘Kabuki theater’”—and New York Times columnist Frank Rich: “[I]f I were to place an incautious bet on which political event will prove the most significant of February 2010, I wouldn’t choose the kabuki health care summit.”
** 2020 January 29, Dan Brooks, “Comedy Written for the Machines”, in New York Times Magazine‎:The boy tells her she will find iPhone chargers if she takes five steps back. Here the performance shifts from mere stiltedness to a kind of hateful Kabuki, an affected defiance of how people naturally act: She walks backward, counting her steps, then turns and slaps her forehead.

#### Derived terms

* kabuki brush
* kabuki dance
* kabuki makeup syndrome
* kabuki play
* kabuki syndrome
* kabuki theater
* kabuki theatre

#### Translations
### Further reading

* kabuki on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Kubiak

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 歌舞伎 (kabuki).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.by.ki/, /ka.bu.ki/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Switzerland):(file)

### Noun

kabuki m (plural kabukis)
* kabuki

### Further reading

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Japanese 歌舞伎 (kabuki).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈbuki/
* Hyphenation: ka‧bu‧ki

### Noun

kabuki (plural kabuki-kabuki)
* (art, drama) kabuki

### Further reading

* “kabuki” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 歌舞伎 (kabuki).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈbu.ki/
* Rhymes: -uki
* Hyphenation: ka‧bù‧ki

### Noun

kabuki m (uncountable)
* kabuki (Japanese theatrical genre)

### Adjective

kabuki (invariable)
* (relational) kabuki

### Further reading

* kabuki in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* kabuki in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

## Japanese
### Romanization

kabuki
* Rōmaji transcription of かぶき

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 歌舞伎.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈbu.ki/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uki
* Syllabification: ka‧bu‧ki

### Noun

kabuki n (indeclinable)
* kabuki (form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies)

### Further reading

* kabuki in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* kabuki in PWN's encyclopedia

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* cabúqui

### Etymology

Borrowing from Japanese 歌舞伎 (kabuki).

### Noun

kabuki m (uncountable)
* kabuki (form of Japanese theatre)

## Romanian
### Etymology

From Unadapted borrowing from English kabuki or French kabuki.

### Noun

kabuki n (uncountable)
* kabuki

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

Borrowing from Japanese 歌舞伎 (kabuki).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈbuki/ [kaˈβ̞u.ki]
* Rhymes: -uki
* Syllabification: ka‧bu‧ki

### Noun

kabuki m (plural kabukis)
* kabuki

### Adjective

kabuki (invariable)
* (relational) kabuki

### Further reading

* “kabuki”, 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