Hiroshima

English

Etymology

From Japanese 広島.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɪ(ə)ˈɹɒʃɪmə/, /hɪ(ə)ɹəˈʃiːmə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /hɪˈɹoʊʃɪmə/, /hɪɹoʊˈʃiːmə/

Proper noun

Hiroshima

1. A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan.
2. The capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. It was the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.
   • 1945 August 6, Truman, Harry S., VT2008-9-2 President Truman Announces Bombing of Hiroshima‎^[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 23630, 0:18 from the start:

     A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.

3. (figuratively) catastrophe.
   • 2011 April, Michael Joseph Gross, “A Declaration of Cyber-War”, Vanity Fair:

   Stuxnet is the Hiroshima of cyber-war.

4. The 1945 atomic bombing of the city of the same name.
   • 2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures:

     VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Translations

a city in Honshu, Japan

• Arabic: هِيرُوشِيمَا‎ f (hirušīmā)
• Armenian: Հիրոսիմա (Hirosima)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廣島, 广岛 (gwong²dou²)

  Mandarin: 廣島 (zh), 广岛 (zh) (Guǎngdǎo)

• Czech: Hirošima (cs) f
• Dutch: Hiroshima
• Esperanto: Hiroŝimo
• Finnish: Hiroshima (fi)
• German: Hiroschima
• Greek: Χιροσίμα (el) f (Chirosíma)
• Hindi: हिरोशिमा m (hirośimā)
• Hungarian: Hirosima (hu)
• Italian: Hiroshima (it), Iroscima
• Japanese: 広島 (ja) (ひろしま, Hiroshima)
• Korean: 히로시마 (Hirosima)
• Latin: Hiroshima f
• Maltese: Hiroshima, Ħiroxima
• Marathi: हिरोशिमा (hirośimā)
• Persian: هیروشیما‎ (hirošimâ)
• Polish: Hiroshima (pl), Hirosima (pl), Hiroszima (pl)
• Portuguese: Hiroshima (pt)
• Romanian: Hiroshima
• Russian: Хироси́ма (ru) f (Xirosíma)
• Rusyn: Гіроші́ма f (Hirošíma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хироши́ма f

  Roman: Hirošíma (sh) f

• Thai: ฮิโระชิมะ (híróchímá)
• Turkish: Hiroşima (tr)
• Uyghur: خىروشىما‎ (xiroshima)

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Japanese

Romanization

Hiroshima

1. Rōmaji transcription of ひろしま

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Polish

Alternative forms

• Hirosima
• Hiroszima

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 広島.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xi.rɔˈɕi.ma/, /xi.rɔˈʂi.ma/
• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: hi‧ro‧shi‧ma

Proper noun

Hiroshima f

1. Hiroshima (a city in Japan)

Declension

Declension of Hiroshima

	singular
nominative	Hiroshima
genitive	Hiroshimy
dative	Hiroshimie
accusative	Hiroshimę
instrumental	Hiroshimą
locative	Hiroshimie
vocative	Hiroshimo

Further reading

• Hiroshima in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Hiroshima in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /i.ɾoˈʃĩ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /i.ɾoˈʃĩ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /i.ɾoˈʃi.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.ɾɔˈʃi.mɐ/

Proper noun

Hiroshima f

1. Hiroshima (a prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan)
2. Hiroshima (the capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan)