kamikaze
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 神風(かみかぜ) (kamikaze, “divine wind”), from 神(かみ) (kami, “divine”) + 風(かぜ) (kaze, “wind”); which originally referred to the typhoon that destroyed the Mongol navy attacking Japan in 1281.
Inflected forms:
form: kamikazes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kamikazes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kamikazeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kamikazed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kamikazed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An attack requiring the suicide of the one carrying it out, especially when done with an aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One who carries out a suicide attack, especially with an aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A vehicle used for a suicide attack, especially an aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
The Ukrainians themselves have been using kamikaze drones to strike against Russian targets – and asked their allies to supply them with more of these deadly weapons.
gloss: One who takes excessive risks, as for example in a sporting event.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
gloss: A cocktail made of equal parts vodka, triple sec and lime juice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Only top-shelf liquor is served, though Sasha refuses to serve drinks he deems fratlike. These include woo woos, kamikazes and shots of any kind.
gloss: A deliberate wipeout.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To destroy (a ship, etc.) in a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To carry out a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fail disastrously.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
gloss: Suicidal, risking one's own life.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Having or showing reckless disregard for safety or personal welfare.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: hara-kiri
hero
juramentado
martyr
seppuku
shaheed
suicide
suicide bomber
Derived words: kamikaze drone
kamikaze shoplifting
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: هُجُومٌ إِنْتِحَارِيّ
roman: hujūmun ʔintiḥāriyy
lang: Arabic
word: كَامِيكَازِي
roman: kāmīkāzī
lang: Azerbaijani
word: kamikadze
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 神風 /神风
roman: shénfēng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 神風攻擊 /神风攻击
roman: shénfēng gōngjí
lang: Danish
word: kamikazeaktion
lang: Finnish
word: itsemurhahyökkäys
lang: Galician
word: kamikaze
lang: Georgian
word: კამიკაძე
roman: ḳamiḳaʒe
lang: German
word: Himmelfahrtskommando
lang: German
word: Selbstmordanschlag
lang: German
word: Selbstmordangriff
lang: German
word: Selbstmordattentat
lang: Greek
word: επίθεση αυτοκτονίας
roman: epíthesi aftoktonías
lang: Indonesian
word: kamikaze
lang: Japanese
word: 神風攻撃
roman: kamikaze kōgeki
lang: Japanese
word: 神風
roman: kamikaze
lang: Japanese
word: 体当たり
roman: taiatari
lang: Korean
word: 가미카제
roman: gamikaje
lang: Korean
word: 다이아타리
roman: daiatari
lang: Kyrgyz
word: камикадзе
roman: kamikadze
lang: Kyrgyz
word: жанкечти
roman: jankecti
lang: Malay
word: kamikaze
lang: Persian
word: کامیکازه
roman: kâmikâze
lang: Polish
word: atak samobójczy
lang: Portuguese
word: camicase
lang: Portuguese
word: kamikaze
lang: Russian
word: камика́дзе
roman: kamikádzɛ
lang: Spanish
word: kamikaze
lang: Swedish
word: kamikaze
lang: Turkish
word: kamikaze
lang: Vietnamese
word: thần phong
lang: Welsh
word: camicasi
lang: Welsh
word: kamikaze