Pokémon

See also: Pokemon and pokémon

English

Logo of Pokémon

Alternative forms

• Pokemon (informal)

Etymology

From Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon), a contraction of ポケットモンスター (Poketto Monsutā), itself from English pocket monster.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊ.kə.mɒn/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊ.keɪˌmɑn/, /ˈpoʊ.kə.mɑn/, /ˈpoʊ.kiˌmɑn/

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• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊ.ki.mɔn/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [ˈpo(ː)kɪmɒ(ː)n], [-ke-], [-kə-]
• Hyphenation: Po‧ké‧mon

Proper noun

Pokémon

1. A Japanese media franchise featuring fictional creatures that are captured by humans and trained to battle each other.

Translations

franchise

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 寶可夢／宝可梦 (bou² ho² mung⁶), 寵物小精靈／宠物小精灵 (cung² mat⁶ siu² zing¹ ling⁴)

  Mandarin: 寶可夢／宝可梦 (zh) (Bǎokèmèng), 神奇寶貝／神奇宝贝 (Shénqí Bǎobèi), 寵物小精靈／宠物小精灵 (Chǒngwù Xiǎo Jīnglíng), 口袋妖怪 (Kǒudài Yāoguài)

• German: Pokémon (de) n
• Hindi: पोकेमोन (pokemon)

Noun

Pokémon (plural Pokémon or (nonstandard) Pokémons)

1. A pocket monster; a fictional creature from the universe of the Pokémon franchise.
   • 2001, Sara Stein, “Games They Play”, in Noah’s Children: Restoring the Ecology of Childhood, New York, N.Y.: North Point Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 248:

     Pokémons are the latest and adamantly conformist craze among middle-childhood boys. The theme of the video games that started the craze is, as usual, the triumph of good over evil. The hero is a child, twelve-year-old Ash. His goal is to capture all 150-plus nonhuman creatures called Pokémons, train them to be good, and use them to capture the remaining wicked Pokémons that so far have escaped. In the games, Ash is not your ally: he is you. Each of the Pokémons has its own sort of power which, after conversion, accrues to Ash’s (your) favor.

   • 2005, Marc Prensky, “Computer Games and Learning: Digital Game-Based Learning”, in Joost Raessens, Jeffrey Goldstein, editors, Handbook of Computer Game Studies, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, →ISBN, part II (Design), page 106, column 2:

     Game strategy (and tactics) are full of such learning about real life, like the rules, the strategy in games needs to be lifelike for the games to make sense, even if the characters, such as Pokémons, are purely imaginary.

   • 2005, Eva Sallis, The Marsh Birds, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 15:

     He had been delighted when his mother said, Just leave everything as it is. Not even his bed was made. He could see that little kid’s mess, his clothes, his Pokémons, his old Winnie Dubdoub, his Spiderman poster; and the truck, alone in the empty house for days now, nearly two weeks.

Derived terms

• Basic Pokémon
• Fakémon
• legendary Pokémon
• PG
• PLA
• PMD
• PoGo
• Poké-
• Pokédex
• Pokédollar
• Pokéfan
• Pokémania
• Pokémaniac
• Pokémon-esque
• Pokémon Goer
• Poképhile
• PokéTuber
• Pokeyman
• Pokeymen

 

Translations

fictional creature

• Arabic: بوكيمون m, پوكيمون m
• Finnish: Pokémon
• French: Pokémon (fr) m
• Georgian: პოკემონი (ṗoḳemoni)
• German: Pokémon (de) n
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: ポケモン (Pokemon), ポケットモンスター (Poketto Monsutā)
• Kannada: ಪೋಕೆಮೊನ್ (pōkemon)
• Korean: 포켓몬 (Pokenmon)
• Lao: ໂປເກມອນ (pō kē mǭn)
• Portuguese: Pokémon (pt) m
• Russian: покемо́н (ru) (pokemón)
• Sinhalese: පෝකෙමොන් (pōkemon)
• Spanish: pokémon
• Swedish: Pokémon c
• Tamil: போகெமொன் (pōkemoṉ)
• Telugu: పోకెమొన్ (pōkemon)
• Thai: โปเกมอน
• Turkish: Pokémon
• Ukrainian: покемо́н (pokemón)
• Urdu: پوکیمون (pokemon)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoːkemɔn/, /ˈpɔkemɔn/, [ˈpoː.ke.mɔn], [ˈpɔ-], [-kə-]

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Proper noun

Pokémon n (proper noun, strong, genitive Pokémons or (with an article) Pokémon)

1. Pokémon (franchise)

Noun

Pokémon n (strong, genitive Pokémons or Pokémon, plural Pokémons or Pokémon)

1. Pokémon (fictional creature)

Declension

Declension of Pokémon [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Pokémon	die	Pokémons, Pokémon
genitive	eines	des	Pokémons, Pokémon	der	Pokémons, Pokémon
dative	einem	dem	Pokémon	den	Pokémons, Pokémon
accusative	ein	das	Pokémon	die	Pokémons, Pokémon