shimada
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See also: Shimada
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɑːdə
Noun[edit]
shimada (plural shimadas)
- A traditional type of formal hairstyle for unmarried women in Japan, whereby the hair is gathered together and fastened to the top of the head.
Translations[edit]
hairstyle
Anagrams[edit]
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
shimada
Ye'kwana[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Arawakan; compare Lokono shimarha.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
shimada (possessed shimadai)
- arrow (weapon)
References[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “shimada”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “shima:da”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “šimāda”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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- English terms borrowed from Japanese
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- Rhymes:English/ɑːdə
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- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Hair
- Japanese non-lemma forms
- Japanese romanizations
- Ye'kwana terms borrowed from Arawakan languages
- Ye'kwana terms derived from Arawakan languages
- Ye'kwana terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ye'kwana lemmas
- Ye'kwana nouns
- mch:Weapons