anime

See also animé, and Anime

English

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

From Japanese アニメ (“anime”), an abbreviation of アニメーション (“animēshon”), from English animation.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

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• IPA: /ænɪmeɪ/

Noun

anime (countable and uncountable; plural anime or (proscribed) animes)

1. (uncountable) An artistic style heavily used in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries
   • I can draw an anime version of you, if you want.
2. (countable) An animated work originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style.
   • 2005, Peter J. Katzenstein, A World of Regions, page 165,

     After three months of successful sales in manga form, it was made into an anime for television.

   • 2005, Joan D. Vinge, in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, page cix,

     Usually the manga comes first, though it may be an offshoot of a novel, and an anime may be inspired by a video game.

   • 2006, Thomas LaMarre, in Japan After Japan (Tomiko Yoda & Harry D. Harootunian, eds.), page 363,

     These anime prepared the way for Otaku no video, a two-part Original Video Animation (OVA).

3. (rare, countable, chiefly proscribed) An animated work in anime style, regardless of the country of origin.

Translations

an animated work originated in Japan

• Albanian: anime (sq)
• Arabic: أنمي (ar) (ʾánimi) m
• Armenian: անիմե (hy) (anime)
• Asturian: anime (ast)
• Basque: anime (eu)
• Bavarian: anime
• Belarusian: aнімэ (be) (animé) n
• Bengali: অ্যানিমে (bn) (ênime)
• Bulgarian: аниме (bg) (animé) n
• Catalan: anime (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 日本動畫 (cmn), 日本动画 (cmn) (Rìběn dònghuà), 動畫 (cmn), 动画 (cmn) (dònghuà), 日本卡通 (cmn) (Rìběn kǎtōng), 日式動畫 (cmn), 日式动画 (cmn) (Rì shì dònghuà)

• Czech: anime (cs) n
• Danish: anime (da)
• Dutch: anime (nl)
• Esperanto: animeo (eo)
• Estonian: anime (et)
• Finnish: anime (fi)
• French: animé (fr) m
• Galician: anime (gl)
• Georgian: ანიმე (ka) (anime), ანიმე (ka) (anime)
• German: Anime (de) m
• Greek: ανιμέ (el) (animé)
• Hebrew: אנימציה יפנית (he) (anime yapanít), אנימה (he) (anime)
• Hindi: ऐनिमे (hi) (ainime), अनिमे (hi) (anime)
• Hungarian: anime (hu)
• Icelandic: anime (is)
• Indonesian: anime (id)
• Italian: anime (it)
• Japanese: アニメ (ja) (anime), アニメーション (ja) (animēshon)

• Kazakh: аниме (kk) (anime)
• Korean: 일본의 애니메이션 (ko) (ilbon-ui aenimeisyeon), 아니메 (ko) (anime), 애니메 (ko) (aenime)
• Kyrgyz: аниме (ky) (anime)
• Latin: animātiō Iaponica (la) f
• Latvian: anime (lv)
• Lithuanian: anime (lt)
• Macedonian: аниме (mk) (animé) n
• Malay: anime (ms)
• Marathi: आनिमे (mr) (ānime) m
• Mongolian: аниме (mn) (anime)
• Norwegian: anime (no)
• Occitan: anime (oc)
• Persian: انیمه (fa) (anime)
• Polish: anime (pl) n
• Portuguese: animé (pt), animê (pt) m
• Russian: аниме (ru) (animɛ́) n (indeclinable) (also spelled анимэ (ru) (anime)), японский мультфильм (ru) (japónskij mul'tfíl'm) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аниме (sh) n

  Roman: anime (sh) n

• Slovak: anime (sk) n
• Slovene: anime (sl) n
• Spanish: anime (es)
• Swedish: anime (sv) c and sometimes animé (older style, not so common anymore).
• Tagalog: anime (tl)
• Thai: อะนิเมะ (th) (ànímé)
• Turkish: anime (tr)
• Ukrainian: aніме (uk) (animé) n
• Urdu: انيمے (ur) (anime)
• Vietnamese: anime (vi)

Etymology 2

French animé (“animated”) (from the insects that are entrapped in it); or native name.

Noun

anime

1. A resin from a tropical American tree (Hymenaea courbaril), used to make varnishes.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ure to this entry?)

Anagrams

• amine, Maine, minae

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Finnish

Etymology

Japanese アニメ (“anime”).

Noun

anime

1. anime

Declension

Declension of anime (type nalle) singular plural nominative anime animet genitive animen animejen animein1 partitive animea animeja accusative anime animen animet inessive animessa animeissa elative animesta animeista illative animeen animeihin adessive animella animeilla ablative animelta animeilta allative animelle animeille essive animena animeina translative animeksi animeiksi instructive – animein abessive animetta animeitta comitative – animeineen 1) Rare.

Anagrams

• maine, Minea, Naemi

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French

Verb

anime

1. first-person singular present indicative of animer
2. third-person singular present indicative of animer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of animer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of animer
5. second-person singular imperative of animer

Anagrams

• en ami, Maine, manie, manié, menai

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Italian

Noun

anime f

1. Plural form of anima

Anagrams

• ameni, emani, emina, manie, menai

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Japanese

Romanization

anime

1. See アニメ

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Latin

Noun

anime m

1. vocative singular of animus

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Polish

Etymology

Japanese アニメ (“anime”).

Noun

anime n (indeclinable)

1. anime

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Portuguese

Etymology

Japanese アニメ (“anime”).

Noun

anime m (plural animes)

1. (animation) anime

Verb

anime

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of animar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of animar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of animar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of animar

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Romanian

Etymology

Japanese アニメ (“anime”).

Noun

anime n (plural animeuri)

1. anime

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Spanish

Verb

anime (infinitive animar)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of animar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of animar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of animar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of animar.