Japanese
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hokkien 日本 /Ji̍t-púnbor.
Malay Jepangbor.
Portuguese Japãobor.
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Malay Jepangbor.
Dutch Japanbor.
English Japan
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Late Latin -iscus
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Vulgar Latin -iscus
Latin -ēnsis
Old French -eisbor.
Middle English -eys
English -ese
English Japanese
From Japan + -ese after the model of earlier Portuguese japonês, New Latin japonensis, French japonais, etc.
Base: Japan
Affixes: -ese
Inflected forms:
form: more Japanese
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Japanese
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, derived from, or characteristic of Japan, its people, language, or culture.
pos: adj
examples: A Japanese saw is one that cuts on the pull stroke rather than on the push stroke.
In the United States, Japanese animation has had a tremendous surge in popularity over the last few years.
Then, as I walked back to the Miyako Hybrid, the snow-white hotel, with its perfectly black parking lot and perfectly trimmed palm trees, looked more like a computer rendering of a building than a building itself. And that is very Japanese.
Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night.
gloss: Of, relating to, derived from, or characteristic of Japan, its people, language, or culture.
pos: adj
examples: The Ainu were subject to forced assimilation by the Japanese since at least the 18th century.
Synonyms: Japonian
Japonic
Nipponese
Nipponic
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: Japannees
lang: Afrikaans
word: Japans
lang: Albanian
word: japonez
lang: Arabic
word: يَابَانِيّ
roman: yābāniyy
lang: Armenian
word: ճապոնական
roman: čaponakan
lang: Asturian
word: xaponés
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yapon
lang: Basque
word: japoniar
lang: Belarusian
word: япо́нскі
roman: japónski
lang: Bengali
word: জাপানি
roman: japani
lang: Bulgarian
word: япо́нски
roman: japónski
lang: Burmese
word: ဂျပန်
roman: gya.pan
lang: Catalan
word: japonès
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 日本的
roman: Rìběn de
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 日
roman: Rì-
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 日式
roman: Rìshì
lang: Czech
word: japonský
lang: Danish
word: japansk
lang: Dutch
word: Japans
lang: Dutch
word: Japanse
lang: Dutch
word: Nippons
lang: Esperanto
word: japana
lang: Estonian
word: jaapani
lang: Faroese
word: japanskur
lang: Finnish
word: japanilainen
lang: Finnish
word: japaninkielinen
lang: French
word: japonais
lang: Friulian
word: gjaponês
lang: Galician
word: xaponés
lang: Galician
word: xaponesa
lang: Georgian
word: იაპონური
roman: iaṗonuri
lang: German
word: japanisch
lang: Greek
word: ιαπωνικός
roman: iaponikós
lang: Hawaiian
word: Kepanī
lang: Hawaiian
word: Iāpana
lang: Hebrew
word: יַפָּנִי
roman: yapáni
lang: Hindi
word: जापानी
roman: jāpānī
lang: Hungarian
word: japán
lang: Icelandic
word: japanskur
lang: Indonesian
word: Jepang
lang: Interlingua
word: japonese
lang: Irish
word: Seapánach
lang: Italian
word: giapponese
lang: Italian
word: nipponico
lang: Japanese
word: 日本
lang: Japanese
word: 日本の
lang: Japanese
word: 日
roman: Nichi-, Ni-
lang: Japanese
word: 和
roman: Wa-
lang: Kazakh
word: жапон
roman: japon
lang: Khmer
word: ជប៉ុន
roman: cĕəʼpon
lang: Korean
word: 일본(日本)의
roman: ilbon-ui
lang: Korean
word: 일
roman: il
lang: Korean
word: 왜
roman: wae
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: japonî
lang: Kyrgyz
word: жапон
roman: japon
lang: Lao
word: ຍີ່ປຸ່ນ
roman: nyī pun
lang: Latin
word: japonensis
lang: Latin
word: japonicus
lang: Latin
word: nipponensis
lang: Latin
word: nipponicus
lang: Latvian
word: japānisks
lang: Latvian
word: japāņu
lang: Lithuanian
word: japoniškas
lang: Lithuanian
word: japoniška
lang: Luxembourgish
word: japanesch
lang: Macedonian
word: јапонски
roman: japonski
lang: Malay
word: Jepun
lang: Malayalam
word: ജാപ്പനീസ്
roman: jāppanīsŭ
lang: Marathi
word: जापानी
roman: jāpānī
lang: Mongolian
word: япон
roman: japon
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: japansk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: japansk
lang: Occitan
word: japonés
lang: Pashto
word: جاپانی
roman: ǰāpānáy
lang: Persian
word: ژاپنی
roman: žâponi
lang: Piedmontese
word: giaponèis
lang: Polish
word: japoński
lang: Portuguese
word: japonês
lang: Portuguese
word: nipônico
lang: Romani
word: źapanikano
lang: Romanian
word: japonez
lang: Romansh
word: giapunais
lang: Romansh
word: giapunaisa
lang: Russian
word: япо́нский
roman: japónskij
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ја̀па̄нскӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: jàpānskī
lang: Slovak
word: japonský
lang: Slovene
word: japonski
lang: Spanish
word: japonés
lang: Spanish
word: nipón
lang: Spanish
word: ponja
lang: Swahili
word: Kijapani
lang: Swedish
word: japansk
lang: Tagalog
word: Hapon
lang: Tajik
word: ҷопонӣ
roman: joponi
lang: Tajik
word: ҷопон
roman: jopon
lang: Tajik
word: японӣ
roman: yaponi
lang: Tajik
word: япон
roman: yapon
lang: Thai
word: ญี่ปุ่น
roman: yîi-bpùn
lang: Tibetan
word: ཉི་ཧོང
roman: nyi hong
lang: Tibetan
word: རི་པིན
roman: ri pin
lang: Turkish
word: Japon
lang: Turkmen
word: ýapon
lang: Ukrainian
word: япо́нський
roman: japónsʹkyj
lang: Urdu
word: جاپانی
roman: jāpānī
lang: Uyghur
word: ياپون
roman: yapon
lang: Uzbek
word: yapon
lang: Vietnamese
word: Nhật
lang: Vietnamese
word: thuộc Nhật
lang: Volapük
word: Yapänik
lang: Yiddish
word: יאַפּאַניש
roman: yapanish