kamikaze

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, “divine wind”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkæmɪˈkɑːzi/
• (emulating Japanese) IPA^(key): /kɑːmɪˈkɑːzeɪ/

• Audio (AU):

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Noun

kamikaze (plural kamikazes)

1. An attack requiring the suicide of the one carrying it out, especially when done with an aircraft.
2. One who carries out a suicide attack, especially with an aircraft.
3. (colloquial) One who takes excessive risks, as for example in a sporting event.
4. A cocktail made of equal parts vodka, triple sec and lime juice.
5. (surfing) A deliberate wipeout.

Translations

suicidal attack

• Arabic: كَامِيكَازِي m (kāmīkāzī)
• Azerbaijani: kamikadze
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神風／神风 (zh) (shénfēng), 神风 (zh) (shénfēng), 神風攻擊／神风攻击, 神风攻击 (shénfēng gōngjí)

• Danish: kamikazeaktion c
• Finnish: itsemurhahyökkäys
• Galician: kamikaze m or f
• Greek: επίθεση αυτοκτονίας f (epíthesi aftoktonías)
• Indonesian: kamikaze (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 神風攻撃 (かみかぜこうげき, kamikaze kōgeki), 神風 (ja) (かみかぜ, kamikaze), 体当たり (ja) (たいあたり, taiatari)
• Korean: 가미카제 (gamikaje), 다이아타리 (daiatari)
• Kyrgyz: камикадзе (ky) n (kamikadze), жанкечти (ky) (jankecti)|tr=jankechti
• Malay: kamikaze
• Portuguese: camicase (pt) m
• Russian: камика́дзэ n (kamikádzɛ), камика́дзе (ru) (kamikádze)
• Spanish: kamikaze (es) m or f
• Turkish: kamikaze (tr)
• Welsh: camicasi m, kamikaze

suicidal attacker

• Arabic: كَامِيكَازِي m (kāmīkāzī)
• Catalan: kamikaze (ca) c
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神風特攻隊／神风特攻队 (zh), 神风特攻队 (zh) (shénfēng tègōngduì), 神風特別攻擊隊／神风特别攻击队 (zh), 神风特别攻击队 (zh) (shénfēng tèbié gōngjí duì)

• Danish: kamikaze c, kamikazepilot c, selvmordspilot c
• Dutch: kamikaze (nl) m, kamikazepiloot m
• Finnish: itsemurhapommittaja (fi)
• French: kamikaze (fr) m
• Greek: καμικάζι (el) m (kamikázi)
• Indonesian: kamikaze (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 特別攻撃隊 (とくべつこうげきたい, tokubetsu kōgekitai) (official), 特攻隊 (とっこうたい, tokkōtai) (popular), 神風特攻隊 (かみかぜとっこうたい, kamikaze tokkōta)
• Korean: 가미카제 (gamikaje)
• Kyrgyz: камикадзе (ky) n (kamikadze), жанкечти (ky) (jankecti)
• Malay: kamikaze
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kamikazeflyger m, kamikazeflyver m

  Nynorsk: kamikazeflygar m

• Portuguese: camicase (pt) m
• Russian: камика́дзе (ru) m (kamikádze)
• Spanish: kamikaze (es) m

See also

• hara-kiri
• seppuku
• suicide
• suicide bomber

Verb

kamikaze (third-person singular simple present kamikazes, present participle kamikazeing, simple past and past participle kamikazed)

1. (transitive) To destroy (a ship, etc.) in a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
2. (intransitive) To carry out a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
3. (intransitive, slang) To fail disastrously.

Adjective

kamikaze (not comparable)

1. suicidal, risking one's own life
   • 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 June 2018:

     Sheathed in helmets, gloves, and jackets, they look more like manic video game figures than humans. They weave through traffic and around double-decker buses at kamikaze velocity.

References

• Discussion of this term on Languagehat, a language blog

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Catalan

Noun

kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)

1. kamikaze

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Czech

Alternative forms

• kamikadze

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkamɪkazɛ]
• Rhymes: -azɛ

Noun

kamikaze m anim

1. kamikaze (one who makes an attack requiring his suicide, especially when done with an aircraft)

Further reading

• Template:R:ASCS

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, “suicide flyer”, literally “divine wind”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.mi.kaz/, /ka.mi.ka.ze/

• Audio:

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Noun

kamikaze m or f (plural kamikazes)

1. kamikaze (person carrying out a suicide attack); suicide bomber

See also

• attentat-suicide

Further reading

• “kamikaze”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, “divine wind”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kamikaze/

Noun

kamikaze (first-person possessive kamikazeku, second-person possessive kamikazemu, third-person possessive kamikazenya)

1. the typhoons that saved Japan from invasion, divine wind
2. a kamikaze, a suicide pilot in World War Two

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ, kamikaze, “suicide flyer”, literally “divine wind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.miˈka.ze/, [kämiˈkäːz̪e̞]
• IPA^(key): /ka.miˈka.d͡ze/, [kämiˈkäːd̪͡z̪e̞]
• Rhymes: -aze
• Hyphenation: ka‧mi‧kà‧ze

Noun

kamikaze m (uncountable)

1. kamikaze

See also

• attentatore

References

• kamikaze in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Japanese

Romanization

kamikaze

1. Rōmaji transcription of かみかぜ

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• camicase

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, “suicide flyer”, literally “divine wind”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.mi.ˈka.zɨ/
• Hyphenation: ka‧mi‧ka‧ze

Noun

kamikaze m (plural s)

1. kamikaze

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kamikaze.

Adjective

1. kamikaze

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kamikaze.

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, “suicide flyer”, literally “divine wind”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kamiˈkaθe/ [ka.miˈka.θe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kamiˈkase/ [ka.miˈka.se]
• Rhymes: -aθe, -ase

Noun

kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)

1. kamikaze
2. ghost driver, wrong-way driver