samurai

See also Samurai

English

Wikipedia

An armoured and armed samurai.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sămʹ(y)ərī', IPA: /ˈsæm(j)əˌɹaɪ/
• Rhymes: -æməraɪ, -æmjəraɪ

Etymology

From Japanese 侍 (さむらい, samurai).

Noun

samurai (plural samurai or samurais)

1. In feudal Japan, a soldier of noble birth who followed the code of bushido and served a daimyo.

Translations

feudal Japanese warrior

• Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: ساموراي (ar) (samurāy) m
• Armenian: սամուրայ (hy) (samuray)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 武士 (cmn) (wǔshì), 日本武士 (cmn) (Rìběn wǔshì)

  Cantonese: 武士 (mou5 si6)

• Czech: samuraj (cs) m
• Dutch: samoerai (nl) m
• Esperanto: samurajo (eo)
• Finnish: samurai (fi)
• French: samouraï (fr) m
• German: Samurai (de) m
• Greek: σαμουράι (el) (samurái) m
• Hebrew: סמוראי (he) (samorai) m
• Hungarian: szamuráj (hu)
• Icelandic: samúræji (is) m
• Interlingua: samurai
• Italian: samurai (it) m
• Japanese: 侍 (ja) (さむらい, samurai), 武士 (ja) (ぶし, bushi, もののふ, mononofu)

• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 사무라이 (ko) (samurai), 무사 (ko) (musa) (武士 (ko)), (rare) 부시 (ko) (busi)
• Latvian: samurajs (lv) m
• Lithuanian: samurajus (lt) m
• Macedonian: самурај (mk) (samuráj) m
• Malay: samurai (ms)
• Marathi: सामुराइ (mr) (sāmurāi) m
• Norwegian: samurai (no) m
• Polish: samuraj (pl) m
• Portuguese: samurai (pt) m
• Russian: самурай (ru) (samuráj) m
• Slovak: samuraj (sk) m
• Slovene: samuraj (sl) m
• Spanish: samurái (es) m
• Swedish: samuraj (sv)
• Thai: ซามูไร (th) (saamoorai)
• Turkish: samuray (tr)
• Vietnamese: xamurai (vi), samurai (vi), võ sĩ (vi) (武士 (vi)), (rare) thị (vi) (侍 (vi))

Related terms

• ronin

Anagrams

• Masuria

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Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese.

Noun

samurai

1. samurai

Declension

Declension of samurai (type maa) singular plural nominative samurai samurait genitive samurain samuraiden samuraitten partitive samuraita samuraita accusative samurai samurain samurait inessive samuraissa samuraissa elative samuraista samuraista illative samuraihin samuraihin adessive samurailla samurailla ablative samurailta samurailta allative samuraille samuraille essive samuraina samuraina translative samuraiksi samuraiksi instructive – samurain abessive samuraitta samuraitta comitative – samuraineen

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Japanese

Romanization

samurai

1. See さむらい

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Spanish

Noun

samurai

1. Common misspelling of samurái.