Okinawa

See also: okinawa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 沖縄(おきなわ) (Okinawa).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɒkiːˈnɑːwə/, /ˌəʊkiːˈnɑːwə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊkiˈnɑwə/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːwə

Proper noun

Okinawa

2. A prefecture and island group in Japan.

   Synonym: (uncommon) Uchina

4. The main island of the Okinawa and Ryukyu Islands, in Okinawa prefecture, Japan.

   Synonym: (uncommon) Uchina

   • 2010, Walter Mondale, David Hage, The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics‎^[1], Scribner, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 323:

     Anyone who knew our military installation in Okinawa knew it was a room full of gasoline waiting for someone to strike a match. We had forty-two bases on the island with more than twenty thousand personnel. All of them were living and conducting exercises right up against Okinawan civilian neighborhoods.

6. The second-largest city on Okinawa Island, in Okinawa prefecture, Japan.

   Synonym: (uncommon) Uchina

7. (historical, World War II) The Battle of Okinawa, which took place on the island of Okinawa in 1945.

Derived terms

• Battle of Okinawa
• Okinawan
• Okinawa diet

Translations

prefecture

• Ainu: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: الْأُوكِينَاوَا f (al-ʔūkīnāwā), مُحَافَظَة أُوكِينَاوَا (muḥāfaẓa(t) ʔūkīnāwā)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 沖繩 / 冲绳 (cung¹ sing⁴), 沖繩縣 / 冲绳县 (cung¹ sing⁴ jyun⁶)

  Mandarin: 沖繩 / 冲绳 (zh) (Chōngshéng), 沖繩縣 / 冲绳县 (zh) (Chōngshéngxiàn)

• Cia-Cia: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: Okinawa f
• Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: Okinawa (fi)
• Hawaiian: ʻOkinawa
• Hebrew: אוקינווה m (okináva)
• Japanese: 沖縄 (ja) (おきなわ, Okinawa), 沖縄県 (ja) (おきなわけん, Okinawa-ken)
• Korean: 오키나와 (ko) (Okinawa), 오키나와 현 (Okinawa hyeon)
• Kunigami: 沖縄 (ふちなー, Fuchinā)
• Lithuanian: Okinava (lt) f, Okinavos prefektūra
• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: ओकिनावा (okināvā)
• Miyako: 沖縄 (うきぃなー, Uksïnā)
• Okinawan: 沖縄 (うちなー, Uchinā), 沖縄県 (うちなーちん, Uchinā-chin)
• Polish: Okinawa (pl)
• Portuguese: Okinawa (pt) f, Oquinaua (pt) f (rare)
• Russian: Окина́ва (ru) f (Okináva), Префекту́ра Окина́ва f (Prefektúra Okináva)
• Samogitian: Okinava f
• Slovak: Okinava f
• Southern Amami Ōshima: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: Okinawa (es)
• Tibetan: ཨོ་ཀི་ན་ལྦ། (o ki na lba)
• Vietnamese: Okinawa, Tỉnh Okinawa
• Yaeyama: 沖縄 (うきぃなー, Ukïnā)
• Yonaguni: 沖縄 (うんな, Unna)

city

• Ainu: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: أُوكِينَاوَا f (ʔūkīnāwā), مَدِينَة أُوكِينَاوَا (madīna(t) ʔūkīnāwā)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 沖繩市 / 冲绳市 (cung¹ sing⁴ si⁵)

  Mandarin: 沖繩市 / 冲绳市 (Chōngshéngshì)

• Czech: Okinawa f
• Finnish: Okinawa (fi)
• Japanese: 沖縄市 (おきなわし, Okinawa-shi)
• Korean: 오키나와 시 (Okinawa si)
• Marathi: ओकिनावा (okināvā)
• Okinawan: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: Okinawa (pt) f
• Russian: Окина́ва (ru) f (Okináva)
• Vietnamese: Okinawa, Thành phố Okinawa

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

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 沖縄(おきなわ) (Okinawa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈokɪnava]
• Rhymes: -ava
• Hyphenation: Oki‧na‧wa

Proper noun

Okinawa f (relational adjective okinawský, demonym Okinawan, female demonym Okinawanka)

1. Okinawa (an island, city, and prefecture of Japan)

Declension

Declension of Okinawa (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Okinawa
genitive	Okinawy
dative	Okinawě
accusative	Okinawu
vocative	Okinawo
locative	Okinawě
instrumental	Okinawou

Further reading

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

Ilocano

Alternative forms

• Okinawa Japan

Etymology

Borrowed from English Okinawa, due to its similarities with the swear word ukinana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔokinˈnawa/ [ʔo.kinˈna.wa]
• Hyphenation: O‧ki‧na‧wa

Interjection

Okináwa (minced oath, slightly vulgar, colloquial)

1. Alternative form of ukinana

Japanese

Romanization

Okinawa

1. Rōmaji transcription of おきなわ

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Oquinaua (rare)

Proper noun

Okinawa f

1. Okinawa (an island, city, and prefecture of Japan)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /okiˈnawa/ [o.kiˈna.wa]
• Rhymes: -awa
• Syllabification: O‧ki‧na‧wa

Proper noun

Okinawa f

1. Okinawa (an island, city, and prefecture of Japan)