Osaka

See also: Ósaka, Ōsaka, and Osaką

English

Alternative forms

• Ōsaka

Etymology

From Japanese 大(おお)阪(さか) (Ōsaka, literally “large hill”) — the slope up to the Uemachi Plateau, where Osaka Castle sits.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əʊˈsɑːkə/, /əʊˈsækə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /oʊˈsɑːkə/, /oʊˈsækə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːkə, -ækə

Proper noun

Osaka

2. The capital city of Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
   • 2005 October 9, Ken Belson, “Going to Osaka”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 March 2021:

     And Osaka comes alive in the warm months of summer and fall as the locals take to their outdoor restaurants, flock to festivals and cheer on the hometown baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers.

4. A prefecture on the island of Honshū, Japan.
5. A surname from Japanese.
   • 2020 June 9, Yoko Wakatsuki, Eric Cheung and Jack Guy, “Japanese broadcaster takes down controversial Black Lives Matter anime”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Naomi Osaka, a Japanese professional tennis player, also responded to the NHK post with a popular gif of “Family Feud” host Steve Harvey expressing bewilderment.

Derived terms

• Osakan

Translations

city in Honshū, Japan

• Amharic: ኦሳካ (ʾosaka)
• Arabic: أُوسَاكَا f (ʔūsakā)
• Armenian: Օսակա (Ōsaka)
• Bengali: ওসাকা (ōśaka)
• Bulgarian: О́сака (Ósaka)
• Burmese: အိုဆာကာ (uihcaka)
• Cherokee: ᎣᏌᎧ (osaka)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大阪 (daai⁶ baan²)

  Hokkien: 大阪 (Tāi-pán)

  Mandarin: 大阪 (zh) (Dàbǎn)

• Czech: Ósaka f
• Dutch: Osaka (nl) n
• Esperanto: Osako
• Estonian: Osaka (et)
• Finnish: Osaka (fi)
• French: Osaka (fr) f, Ōsaka (fr) f
• Georgian: ოსაკა (osaḳa)
• German: Osaka (de) n
• Greek: Οσάκα (el) f (Osáka)
• Hebrew: אוֹסָקָה f (Ósaka)
• Hindi: ओसाका (hi) m (osākā)
• Hungarian: Oszaka (hu)
• Indonesian: Osaka
• Irish: Ósaca f
• Italian: Osaka (it) f
• Japanese: 大阪 (ja) (おおさか, Ōsaka), 大阪市 (ja) (おおさかし, Ōsaka-shi)
• Khmer: អូសាកា (ʼousaakaa)
• Korean: 오사카 (ko) (Osaka), (North Korea) 오사까 (ko) (Osakka)
• Latin: Ōsaca (la) f
• Latvian: Osaka
• Lithuanian: Osaka
• Macedonian: Оса́ка f (Osáka)
• Marathi: ओसाका n (osākā)
• Nepali: ओसाका (osākā)
• Occitan: Osaka
• Persian: اوساکا (osâkâ)
• Polish: Osaka (pl) f
• Portuguese: Osaka (pt) f, (rare) Osaca (pt) f
• Romanian: Osaka
• Russian: О́сака (ru) f (Ósaka)
• Scots: Osaka
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Оса̀ка f

  Roman: Osàka (sh) f

• Slovak: Osaka
• Slovene: Osaka
• Spanish: Osaka (es) f
• Swedish: Osaka c
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: โอซากะ (th) (oo-saa-gà), โอซาก้า (th) (oo-saa-gâa)
• Turkish: Osaka
• Ukrainian: О́сака (uk) f (Ósaka)
• Urdu: اوساکا (osākā)
• Vietnamese: Ōsaka, Osaka (vi)
• West Frisian: Osaka n

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

• Asako, Asoka, asoak

French

Alternative forms

• Ōsaka, Ôsaka

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 大(おお)阪(さか) (Ōsaka, literally “large hill”).

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /o.za.ka/; /o.sa.ka/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /o.sa.kɑ/

Proper noun

Osaka f

1. Osaka (the capital city of Osaka Prefecture, Japan)
2. Osaka (a prefecture on the island of Honshū, Japan)

Italian

Alternative forms

• Ōsaka

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 大(おお)阪(さか) (Ōsaka, literally “large hill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈza.ka/, (high-style, less-preferred) /oˈsa.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: O‧sà‧ka

Proper noun

Osaka f

1. Osaka (the capital city of Osaka Prefecture, Japan)
2. Osaka (a prefecture on the island of Honshū, Japan)

Japanese

Romanization

Osaka

1. Rōmaji transcription of おさか

Polish

Osaka

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 大阪.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈsa.ka/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: O‧sa‧ka

Proper noun

Osaka f (related adjective osakijski)

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

Declension

Declension of Osaka

	singular
nominative	Osaka
genitive	Osaki
dative	Osace
accusative	Osakę
instrumental	Osaką
locative	Osace
vocative	Osako

Derived terms

nouns

• osakijczyk
• osakijka

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 大(おお)阪(さか) (Ōsaka, literally “large hill”).

Proper noun

Osaka ?

1. alternative form of Osaca

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 大(おお)阪(さか) (Ōsaka, literally “large hill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈsaka/ [oˈsa.ka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: O‧sa‧ka

Proper noun

Osaka f

1. Osaka (the capital city of Osaka Prefecture, Japan)
2. Osaka (a prefecture on the island of Honshū, Japan)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 大(おお)阪(さか) (Ōsaka, literally “large hill”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔoˈsaka/ [ʔoˈsaː.xɐ]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: O‧sa‧ka

Proper noun

Osaka (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜐᜃ)

1. Osaka (the capital city of Osaka Prefecture, Japan)
2. Osaka (a prefecture on the island of Honshū, Japan)