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
• Arabic: ساموراي m (samurāy)
• Armenian: սամուրայ (samuray)
• Chinese:

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

  Cantonese: 武士 (mou5 si6)

• Czech: samuraj m
• Dutch: samoerai (nl) m
• Esperanto: samurajo
• Finnish: samurai (fi)
• French: samouraï (fr) m
• German: Samurai (de) m
• Greek: σαμουράι (el) m (samourái)
• Hebrew: סמוראי m (samorai)
• Hungarian: szamuráj
• Icelandic: samúræji m
• 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: самурај m (samuráj)
• Malay: samurai
• Marathi: सामुराइ m (sāmurāi)
• Norwegian: samurai m
• Polish: samuraj (pl) m
• Portuguese: samurai m
• Russian: самурай (ru) m (samuráj)
• Slovak: samuraj m
• Slovene: samuraj m
• Spanish: samurái m
• Swedish: samuraj (sv)
• Thai: ซามูไร (saamoorai)
• Turkish: samuray (tr)
• Vietnamese: xamurai, samurai (vi), võ sĩ (武士), (rare) thị (vi) (侍 (vi))

Related terms

• ronin

Anagrams

• Masuria

---

Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese.

Noun

samurai

1. samurai

Declension

Declension of samurai (Kotus type 18/maa)

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

---

Japanese

Romanization

samurai

1. rōmaji reading of さむらい

---

Spanish

Noun

samurai

1. Common misspelling of samurái.