samurai

See also: Samurai

English

Wikipedia

An armoured and armed samurai.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sămʹ(y)ərī', IPA^(key): /ˈsæm(j)əˌɹaɪ/
• Rhymes: -æməraɪ, -æmjəraɪ

Etymology

From Japanese 侍 (さむらい, samurai).

Noun

samurai (plural samurai or samurais)

1. In feudal Japan, a soldier of noble birth who followed the code of bushido and served a daimyo.

Translations

feudal Japanese warrior

• Afrikaans: samoerai
• Albanian: samuraj (sq) m
• Arabic: سَامُورَاي m (sāmūrāy)
• Armenian: սամուրայ (samuray)
• Azeri: samuray
• Belarusian: самура́й m (samuráj)
• Bengali: সামুরাই (samura'i)
• Bulgarian: самура́й m (samuráj)
• Burmese: ဆာမူရိုင်း (hcamuruing:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 武士 (mou5 si6), 日本武士 (jat6 bun2 mou5 si6)

  Mandarin: 武士 (zh) (wǔshì), 日本武士 (Rìběn wǔshì)

• Czech: samuraj m
• Danish: samurai
• Dutch: samoerai (nl) m
• Esperanto: samurajo
• Estonian: samurai (et)
• Finnish: samurai (fi)
• French: samouraï (fr) m
• Georgian: სამურაი (samurai)
• German: Samurai (de) m
• Greek: σαμουράι (el) m (samourái)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: סמוראי m (samorai)
• Hindi: समुराई m (samurā'ī)
• Hungarian: szamuráj (hu)
• Icelandic: samúræji m
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: samurai (id)
• Interlingua: samurai
• Italian: samurai (it) m
• Japanese: 侍 (ja) (さむらい, samurai), 武士 (ja) (ぶし, bushi, もののふ, mononofu)

• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 사무라이 (ko) (samurai), 무사 (ko) (musa) (武士 (ko)), (rare) 부시 (ko) (busi)
• Latvian: samurajs m
• Lithuanian: samurajus (lt) m
• Macedonian: самура́ј m (samuráj)
• Malay: samurai
• Marathi: सामुराइ m (sāmurāi)
• Mongolian: самурай (samuraj)
• Norwegian: samurai m
• Persian: سامورایی (fa) (sâmurâyi)
• Polish: samuraj (pl) m
• Portuguese: samurai m
• Romanian: samurai (ro) m
• Russian: самура́й (ru) m (samuráj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: самурај m

  Roman: samuraj (sh) m

• Slovak: samuraj m
• Slovene: samuraj m
• Spanish: samurái m
• Swedish: samuraj (sv)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ซามูไร (saamoorai)
• Turkish: samuray (tr)
• Ukrainian: самура́й (uk) m (samuráj)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: xamurai, samurai (vi), võ sĩ (武士), (rare) thị (vi) (侍 (vi))

Related terms

• ronin

Anagrams

• Masuria

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Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese.

Noun

samurai

1. samurai

Declension

Inflection of samurai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)

		singular	plural
nominative		samurai	samurait
accusative	nom.?	samurai	samurait
	gen.	samurain
genitive		samurain	samuraiden samuraitten
partitive		samuraita	samuraita
inessive		samuraissa	samuraissa
elative		samuraista	samuraista
illative		samuraihin	samuraihin
adessive		samurailla	samurailla
ablative		samurailta	samurailta
allative		samurailleˣ	samurailleˣ
essive		samuraina	samuraina
translative		samuraiksi	samuraiksi
instructive		—	samurain
abessive		samuraitta	samuraitta
comitative		—	samuraineen

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Japanese

Romanization

samurai

1. rōmaji reading of さむらい

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Portuguese

Noun

samurai m (plural samurais)

1. samurai (feudal Japanese warrior)

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Spanish

Noun

samurai

1. Misspelling of samurái.