sakura
See also: Sakura
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Japanese 桜 (sakura, “cherry tree”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsækʊɹə/, /ˈsɑːkʊɹə/, /səˈkʊəɹə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]sakura (plural sakura or sakuras)
- (Japanese) cherry tree
- 2005, Meg Greene, Japan: A Primary Source Cultural Guide, New York, N.Y.: PowerPlus Books, The Rosen Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 19:
- Sakura represent the short-lived beauty of life. Sakura are often depicted in Japanese art and poetry.
- 2008, Michael Berry, A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 95:
- And while the tree is found throughout Asia, its associations with Japan are so strong that in Korea many sakura were removed after the colonial period as an unwanted reminder of the Japanese presence.
- 2008, Vladimir Antonov, Classics of Spiritual Philosophy, Lulu, →ISBN, page 321:
- “And inside Yamamuto, there continued to live the beauty of blooming sakuras, the transparency of flowing brooks, the blue of the sky, the foamy crests of waves, the blades of grass breathing in the sunlight, the sun rising over the calm ocean…”
- 2014, Jane Knuth, Ellen Knuth, Love Will Steer Me True: A Mother and Daughter’s Conversations on Life, Love, and God, Chicago, Ill.: Loyola Press, →ISBN:
- The next day is Sunday, and because there are no Christian churches, and since Junko personifies Japanese hospitality, she has arranged to take us to the neighborhood Shinto shrine. / “I am so very sorry,” she says in English. “The sakura are late this year. I hope you are not very disappointed? Please excuse this problem.”
- 2020, Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 262:
- I’ll have to change my name and move to Japan, where people have given up on reproducing and have turned to much more enlightened, spiritually renewing social activities, like viewing blooming sakuras, bathing in onsens, etc.
- cherry blossom (blossom of the Japanese cherry tree)
- 2022, Rajah E. Smart, Felicia M. Banks, The Sakura Cloud, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
- In his hand, he holds a sakura. He plans to give it to his daughter, marking a milestone in her life and protection for the future.
- (hanafuda) a card game from Hawaii played with Japanese hanafuda playing cards
- 1956, Clyde Brion Davis, Something for Nothing, Lippincott, →OCLC, page 190:
- In Hawaii there are a number of popular gambling games which have not invaded the mainland, except possibly in Oriental colonies. The basic game among the large Japanese population is sakura, which is played with a deck of forty-eight tiny one-by-two-inch Japanese cards.
- 2013, James A. Michener, “The Golden Men” (chapter 6), in Hawaii: A Novel, Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 961:
- Any beachboy was hailed as the day's hero who could scrape together enough money to buy a fresh box of sakura cards, and through the long hot days the gang would sit beneath coconut umbrellas, playing the silly game. No other was allowed, and if a man couldn't play sakura, he couldn't be a beachboy.
- 2021, Constance L. Kirker, Mary Newman, “Blossoms: Aesthetics of the Ephemeral” (chapter 2), in Cherry, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 58:
- A variety of games are played with these cards, including a version of Hanafuda in Hawaii, called Sakura, that uses cards specifically designed with numerical values.
Translations
[edit]Japanese cherry tree
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blossom of the Japanese cherry tree — see also cherry blossom
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cherry — see cherry
cherry tree — see cherry tree
cherry blossom — see cherry blossom
Hawaiian card game
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Japanese 桜 (sakura, “cherry tree”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sakura (plural sakura-sakura)
- (Japanese) cherry tree
- cherry blossom (Japanese cherry tree)
Further reading
[edit]- “sakura”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]sakura
Portuguese
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Japanese 桜 (sakura).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]sakura f (plural sakuras)
- cherry blossom, sakura (blossom of the Japanese cherry tree)
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Japanese 桜 (sakura).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sakura f (plural sakuras)
- cherry blossom, sakura (blossom of the Japanese cherry tree)
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