ninja

See also NINJA

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Japanese 忍者, にんじゃ (ninja).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈnɪn.dʒə/, SAMPA: /"nIn.dZ@/
• Rhymes: -ɪndʒə

Noun

ninja (plural ninja or ninjas)

1. (martial arts) A person trained primarily in stealth, espionage, assassination and the Japanese martial art of ninjutsu.
2. A Mongolian amateurish private miner (mainly for gold); after the shape of the plastic bowls used to wash metal ore with mercury, roughly resembling one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
   • 2007 October 10, Jonathan Watts, "Prospectors and 'ninja' miners flood to east's El Dorado" [1], The Guardian,

     Many were former nomads, but as the gold rush gathered pace, students, vets and taxi drivers from Ulan Bator joined the ninjas, not just in Ogoomor but in other gold towns across the country.

3. (slang) Juggalo version of the epithet "nigga".

   What up, my ninja!

Related terms

• shinobi
• ninpō
• ninjutsu

Translations

person trained in stealth, espionage, assassination and ninjutsu

Arabic: نينجا (ar) (niinja) m. Armenian: նինջա (hy) (ninǰa) Bosnian: nindža (bs) m. and f. Chinese: Mandarin: 忍者 (cmn) (rěnzhě) Min Nan: 忍者 (jím-chiá) Croatian: nindža (hr) m. and f. Danish: ninja (da) Dutch: ninja (nl) Esperanto: ninĵo (eo) Finnish: ninja (fi) French: ninja (fr) m. and f. German: Ninja (de) Greek: νίντζα (el) (nintza) m.

Hebrew: נִינְגָ'ה (he) (ninja) m. Hungarian: nindzsa (hu) Italian: ninja (it) m. and f. Japanese: 忍者 (ja) (にんじゃ, ninja), 忍び (ja) (しのび, shinobi) Korean: 닌자 (ko) (ninja) Norwegian: ninja (no) m. Persian: نینجا (fa) Russian: ниндзя (ru) (níndzja) m. (indeclinable) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: нинџа (sh) m. and f. Roman: nindža (sh) m. and f. Slovene: nindža (sl) m. Swedish: ninja (sv) c.

Verb

ninja (third-person singular simple present ninjas, present participle ninjaing, simple past and past participle ninjaed)

1. To act in the manner of a ninja, especially in the areas of speed and power.
2. (gaming, slang) To claim an item in a game by abusing game mechanics, often despite having no real need for the item or ability to use it.

   That damn warrior ninja'd an epic-quality wand even though he can't even use it!

Anagrams

• Jinan

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Japanese

Noun

ninja (hiragana にんじゃ)

1. 忍者: a ninja

Coordinate terms

• shinobi
• kunoichi
• ninpō
• ninjutsu

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Swedish

Noun

ninja c.

1. a ninja

Declension

Declension of ninja

	singular		plural
c	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ninja	ninjan	ninjor	ninjorna
genitive	ninjas	ninjans	ninjors	ninjornas