Nagasaki

English

Nagasaki, after the bomb (Fat Man) was dropped.

Alternative forms

• (obsolete, reflecting historical pronunciation) Nangasaki, Nangasacq
• (in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift) Nangasac

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 長崎(ながさき) (Nagasaki).

Proper noun

Nagasaki

1. A port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan, famous as the country's early modern entrepot and for its nuclear bombing on 9 August 1945 at the end of World War II.
   • 2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures:

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

   • 2020 August 6, Brad Lendon, “Hiroshima after 75 years: Walking the path of the atomic bomb”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     This slab is where the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago were put together. It’s the assembly point for the dawning of the atomic age.

2. A prefecture of Japan.

Translations

Japanese port

• Arabic: نَاغَاسَاكِي m (naḡasākī), نَاجَازَاكِي m (nagazākī)
• Armenian: Նագասակի (Nagasaki)
• Belarusian: Нагаса́кі m (Nahasáki)
• Bulgarian: Нагаса́ки m (Nagasáki)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Наґаса́кі m (Nagasáki)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長崎 / 长崎 (zh) (Chángqí)

• Czech: Nagasaki (cs) n
• Finnish: Nagasaki
• French: Nagasaki (fr)
• Georgian: ნაგასაკი (nagasaḳi)
• German: Nagasaki (de), Nangasaki
• Greek: Ναγκασάκι (el) (Nagkasáki)
• Hebrew: נגסאקי (Nagasaki)
• Hindi: नागासाकी m (nāgāsākī)
• Hungarian: Nagaszaki (hu)
• Japanese: 長崎 (ja) (ながさき, Nagasaki)
• Korean: 나가사키 (Nagasaki), 나가사끼 (Nagasakki) (North Korea)
• Latin: Nagasacium (la), Nagasaki (la)
• Macedonian: Нагаса́ки (Nagasáki)
• Marathi: नागासाकी (nāgāsākī)
• Persian: ناکازاکی (nâkâzâki), ناگازاکی (nâgâzâki)
• Polish: Nagasaki (pl) n
• Portuguese: Nagasaki (pt) f, Nagasáqui (pt) f, Nangasáqui f, Nangasaque f
• Russian: Нагаса́ки (ru) m (Nagasáki)
• Serbo-Croatian: Нагасаки
• Tajik: Нагасаки (Nagasak-i)
• Tamil: நாகசாகி (nākacāki)
• Thai: นะงะซะกิ (nángáságì)
• Turkish: Nagasaki
• Ukrainian: Наґаса́кі (uk) m (Nagasáki), Нагаса́кі (uk) m (Nahasáki)
• Uyghur: ناگاساكى (nagasaki)
• Vietnamese: Nagasaki

Japanese prefecture

• Arabic: نَاغَاسَاكِي m (naḡasākī), نَاجَازَاكِي m (nagazākī)
• Armenian: Նագասակի (Nagasaki)
• Belarusian: Нагаса́кі m (Nahasáki)
• Bulgarian: Нагаса́ки m (Nagasáki)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Наґаса́кі m (Nagasáki)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長崎 / 长崎 (zh) (Chángqí)

• Czech: Nagasaki (cs) n
• Finnish: Nagasaki
• French: Nagasaki (fr)
• Georgian: ნაგასაკი (nagasaḳi)
• German: Nagasaki (de), Nangasaki
• Greek: Ναγκασάκι (el) (Nagkasáki)
• Hebrew: נגסאקי (Nagasaki)
• Hindi: नागासाकी m (nāgāsākī)
• Hungarian: Nagaszaki (hu)
• Japanese: 長崎 (ja) (ながさき, Nagasaki)
• Korean: 나가사키 (Nagasaki), 나가사끼 (Nagasakki) (North Korea)
• Latin: Nagasacium (la), Nagasaki (la)
• Macedonian: Нагаса́ки (Nagasáki)
• Marathi: नागासाकी (nāgāsākī)
• Persian: ناکازاکی (nâkâzâki), ناگازاکی (nâgâzâki)
• Polish: Nagasaki (pl) n
• Portuguese: Nagasaki (pt) f, Nagasáqui (pt) f, Nangasáqui f, Nangasaque f
• Russian: Нагаса́ки (ru) m (Nagasáki)
• Serbo-Croatian: Нагасаки
• Tajik: Нагасаки (Nagasak-i)
• Tamil: நாகசாகி (nākacāki)
• Thai: นะงะซะกิ (nángáságì)
• Turkish: Nagasaki
• Ukrainian: Наґаса́кі (uk) m (Nagasáki), Нагаса́кі (uk) m (Nahasáki)
• Uyghur: ناگاساكى (nagasaki)
• Vietnamese: Nagasaki

See also

prefectures of Japanedit

• Aichi
• Akita
• Aomori
• Chiba
• Ehime
• Fukui
• Fukuoka
• Fukushima
• Gifu
• Gunma
• Hiroshima
• Hokkaidō
• Hyōgo
• Ibaraki
• Ishikawa
• Iwate
• Kagawa
• Kagoshima
• Kanagawa
• Kōchi
• Kumamoto
• Kyoto
• Mie
• Miyagi
• Miyazaki
• Nagano
• Nagasaki
• Nara
• Niigata
• Ōita
• Okayama
• Okinawa
• Osaka
• Saga
• Saitama
• Shiga
• Shimane
• Shizuoka
• Tochigi
• Tokushima
• Tokyo
• Tottori
• Toyama
• Wakayama
• Yamagata
• Yamaguchi
• Yamanashi

Anagrams

• Gianakas, nagaikas, saganaki

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 長(なが)崎(さき) (Nagasaki).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnaɡasakɪ]
• Rhymes: -akɪ
• Hyphenation: Na‧ga‧sa‧ki

Proper noun

Nagasaki n (indeclinable, relational adjective nagasacký)

1. Nagasaki (a prefecture of Japan)
2. Nagasaki (a port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan)

Further reading

• “Nagasaki”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Nagasaki”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Japanese

Romanization

Nagasaki

1. Rōmaji transcription of ながさき

Polish

Nagasaki

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 長崎.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.ɡaˈsa.ki/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aki
• Syllabification: Na‧ga‧sa‧ki

Proper noun

Nagasaki n (indeclinable)

1. Nagasaki (the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan)
2. Nagasaki (a prefecture of Japan)

Further reading

• Nagasaki in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Nagasaki in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 長(なが)崎(さき) (Nagasaki).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /na.ɡaˈza.ki/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /na.ɡaˈza.ki/ [na.ɣaˈza.ki]

Proper noun

Nagasaki f

1. alternative form of Nagasáqui

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 長(なが)崎(さき) (Nagasaki).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nɑɡɑsɑci]
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [nɑɡɑzɑːci]

Proper noun

Nagasaki

1. Nagasaki (a port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan)
2. Nagasaki (a prefecture of Japan)

Declension

Declension of Nagasaki

	singular	plural
nominative	Nagasaki	Nagasakiler / Nagasaki'ler
accusative	Nagasaki'yi	Nagasakileri / Nagasaki'leri
dative	Nagasaki'ye	Nagasakilere / Nagasaki'lere
locative	Nagasaki'de	Nagasakilerde / Nagasaki'lerde
ablative	Nagasaki'den	Nagasakilerden / Nagasaki'lerden
genitive	Nagasaki'nin	Nagasakilerin / Nagasaki'lerin

Possessive forms of Nagasaki

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Nagasaki'm	Nagasakilerim Nagasaki'lerim
senin (your)	Nagasaki'n	Nagasakilerin Nagasaki'lerin
onun (his/her/its)	Nagasaki'si	Nagasakileri Nagasaki'leri
bizim (our)	Nagasaki'miz	Nagasakilerimiz Nagasaki'lerimiz
sizin (your)	Nagasaki'niz	Nagasakileriniz Nagasaki'leriniz
onların (their)	Nagasaki'si Nagasakileri Nagasaki'leri	Nagasakileri Nagasaki'leri

Derived terms

• Nagasakili