samurai

See also: Samurai and samurái

English

An armoured and armed samurai.

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 侍 (さむらい) (samurai).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsæm(j)ʊɹaɪ/
• (General American) enPR: sămʹə-rī', IPA^(key): /ˈsæməˌɹaɪ/

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• Rhymes: -æməɹaɪ, -æmʊɹaɪ, -æmjʊɹaɪ, -æmjəɹaɪ

Noun

samurai (plural samurai or samurais)

1. In feudal Japan, a soldier who served a daimyo.

Related terms

• ronin

Translations

feudal Japanese warrior

• Afrikaans: samoerai
• Albanian: samuraj (sq) m
• Arabic: سَامُورَاي‎ m (sāmūrāy)
• Armenian: սամուրայ (hy) (samuray)
• Azerbaijani: samuray
• Belarusian: самура́й m (samuráj)
• Bengali: সামুরাই (samurai)
• Bulgarian: самура́й m (samuráj)
• Burmese: ဆာမူရိုင်း (hcamuruing:)
• Catalan: samurai m
• 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 (samurai)
• Hindi: समुराई m (samurāī)
• Hungarian: szamuráj (hu)
• Icelandic: samúræji m
• Ido: samurai
• 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: самуурай (mn) (samuuraj)
• Norwegian: samurai m
• Persian: سامورایی‎ (fa) (sâmurâyi)
• Polish: samuraj (pl) m
• Portuguese: samurai (pt) 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 (es) m
• Swedish: samuraj (sv)
• Tagalog: samuray
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ซามูไร (saa-muu-rai)
• Turkish: samuray (tr)
• Ukrainian: самура́й (uk) m (samuráj)
• Urdu: سمرائی‎ m (samurā'ī)
• Vietnamese: xamurai, samurai (vi), võ sĩ (武士), (rare) thị (vi) (侍 (vi))

Anagrams

• Masuria

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Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese.

Noun

samurai

1. samurai

Declension

Inflection of samurai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative		samurai	samurait
genitive		samurain	samuraiden samuraitten
partitive		samuraita	samuraita
illative		samuraihin	samuraihin
		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		samuraille	samuraille
essive		samuraina	samuraina
translative		samuraiksi	samuraiksi
instructive		—	samurain
abessive		samuraitta	samuraitta
comitative		—	samuraineen

Anagrams

• saumari

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Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 侍 (さむらい, samurai, “samurai, wait upon, serve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.mu.rai/
• Hyphenation: sa‧mu‧rai

Noun

samurai

1. samurai.

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Japanese

Romanization

samurai

1. Rōmaji transcription of さむらい

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese さむらい.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌsɐ.mu.ˈɾaj/, /ˌsa.mu.ˈɾaj/

Noun

samurai m (plural samurais)

1. (military, historical) samurai (feudal Japanese warrior)

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:samurai.

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Spanish

Noun

samurai

1. Misspelling of samurái.