ninja

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Related terms 1.2.2 Translations 1.3 Verb 1.4 Anagrams 2 Japanese 2.1 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Japanese 忍者, にんじゃ (ninja).

[edit] 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.

[edit] Related terms

• ninjutsu
• ninpo
• shinobi

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[edit] Verb

to 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.
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (Internet, slang) To post a particular thing on an Usenet newsgroup or an internet forum faster than another person.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aijnn
• Jinan

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

ninja (hiragana にんじゃ)

1. 忍者: ninja