tsunami

See also: Tsunami and tsunâmi

English

Alternative forms

• sunami (nonstandard)

Etymology

From Japanese 津波 (tsunami), from 津 (tsu, “harbor”) + 波 (nami, “wave”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: so͞o-nä'mi, tso͞o-nä'mi, IPA^(key): /suːˈnɑːmi/, /tsuːˈnɑːmi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /suˈnɑmi/, /tsuˈnɑmi/
• Rhymes: -ɑːmi

Noun

tsunami (plural tsunamis or tsunami)

1. A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Synonyms

• tidal wave (usage conflict)

Derived terms

• megatsunami
• teletsunami
• tsunamigenic
• tsunameter

Translations

large, destructive wave generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean

• Aneityum: najap̃ajap̃
• Arabic: تْسُونَامِي m (tsunaami)
• Armenian: ցունամի (cʿunami)
• Azeri: sunami
• Basque: tsunami (eu)
• Belarusian: цунамі f (cunámi)
• Bulgarian: цунами n (cunámi)
• Catalan: tsunami m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海嘯, 海啸 (zh) (hǎixiào)

• Czech: tsunami (cs) f (indeclinable)
• Danish: flodbølge
• Dutch: tsunami (nl) m, vloedgolf (nl) m
• Esperanto: cunamo
• Estonian: tsunami (et)
• Finnish: hyökyaalto (fi), tsunami (fi)
• French: tsunami (fr) m
• German: Tsunami (de) m
• Greek: τσουνάμι (el) n (tsounámi)
• Hausa: tsùnāmī̀ m
• Hebrew: צוּנַמי m (tsunami)
• Hindi: सूनामी (sūnāmī)
• Hungarian: cunami (hu), szökőár (hu)
• Indonesian: tsunami (id)
• Italian: tsunami (it) m (invariable), maremoto (it) m
• Japanese: 津波 (ja) (つなみ, tsunami), 津浪 (ja) (つなみ, tsunami)
• Korean: 지진 해일 (jijin haeil) (地震海溢), 쓰나미 (ko) (sseunami)
• Kurdish: tsunamî (ku) f

• Latvian: cunami
• Lithuanian: cunamis m
• Macedonian: цунами n (cunámi)
• Malay: tsunami
• Maori: parawhenua
• Marathi: त्सुनामी f (tsunāmī), सुनामी f (sunāmī)
• Navajo: tó nitéél nitságo atságáá
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: flodbølgje

  Bokmål: tsunami (no) m

• Persian: آبْلَرْزه (âb-larze), سونامی (sunâmi)
• Polish: tsunami (pl) n
• Portuguese: tsunami (pt) m, maremoto (pt) m
• Romanian: tsunami m
• Russian: цунами (ru) n (cunámi)
• Serbo-Croatian: veleval m

  Cyrillic: цунами m

  Roman: cunami (sh) m

• Slovak: cunami f, n, tsunami f, n
• Spanish: tsunami (es) m, maremoto (es) m
• Swahili: tsunami
• Swedish: tsunami (sv) c, flodvåg (sv) c
• Tamil: ஆழிப்பேரலை (ta) (āḻippēralai), சுனாமி (ta) (cuṉāmi)
• Thai: คลื่นสึนามิ (th) (khleùùn sèunaamī), คลื่นยักษ์ (khleùùn yāk)
• Turkish: tsunami (tr)
• Ukrainian: цунамі (uk) f (cunámi)
• Vietnamese: sóng thần (vi)
• Welsh: tsunami, tswnami f
• West Frisian: tsûnamy

See also

• earthquake
• flood
• natural disaster
• seaquake
• seiche
• tidal wave
• waterquake

External links

• Tsunami on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tsunami on Wikiversity. Wikiversity
•  Tsunami on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons

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Czech

Etymology

From Japanese.

Noun

tsunami f

1. tsunami

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

From Japanese 津波/津浪 (つなみ, tsunami), “harbour wave”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsunami/

• Audio

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Noun

tsunami m (plural tsunami's, diminutive tsunamietje n)

1. tsunami

Hypernyms

• vloedgolf

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Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese.

Noun

tsunami

1. tsunami

Declension

Inflection of tsunami (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

		singular	plural
nominative		tsunami	tsunamit
accusative	nom.?	tsunami	tsunamit
	gen.	tsunamin
genitive		tsunamin	tsunamien
partitive		tsunamia	tsunameja
inessive		tsunamissa	tsunameissa
elative		tsunamista	tsunameista
illative		tsunamiin	tsunameihin
adessive		tsunamilla	tsunameilla
ablative		tsunamilta	tsunameilta
allative		tsunamilleˣ	tsunameilleˣ
essive		tsunamina	tsunameina
translative		tsunamiksi	tsunameiksi
instructive		—	tsunamein
abessive		tsunamitta	tsunameitta
comitative		—	tsunameineen

Compounds

• tsunamiaalto
• tsunamivaara
• tsunamivaroitus

Anagrams

• minusta, muistan

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French

Etymology

From Japanese 津波 / 津浪 (つなみ, tsunami, “harbour wave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsy.na.mi/

• Audio (FR)

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Noun

tsunami m (plural tsunamis)

1. tsunami

External links

• “tsunami” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Etymology

Japanese

Noun

tsunami f (invariable)

1. tsunami

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Japanese

Romanization

tsunami

1. rōmaji reading of つなみ

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Polish

Etymology

From Japanese 津波 / 津浪 (つなみ (tsunami, “seismic sea wave”, literally “harbour wave”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡s̪s̪ũn̪ãmʲi]

Noun

tsunami n (indeclinable)

1. tsunami

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Portuguese

Wikipedia ^pt

Alternative forms

• tsunâmi (rare)

Etymology

From Japanese 津波 / 津浪 (つなみ (“seismic sea wave”, literally “harbour wave”)).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡su.ˈnɐ.mi/, /t͡ʃi.su.ˈnɐ.mi/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /t͡su.ˈnɐ.mi/
• Hyphenation: tsu‧na‧mi

Noun

tsunami m or f (in variation) (plural tsunamis)

1. tsunami (large, destructive wave)

Synonyms

• maremoto

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

From English tsunami, from Japanese 津波 / 津浪 (つなみ, tsunami, “harbour wave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(t)suˈna̠mi/

Noun

tsunami m (plural tsunamis)

1. tsunami

See also

• marejada
• maremoto

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Swedish

Etymology

From Japanese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsʉːˈnɑːmɪ/, /tsɵˈnɑːmɪ/

Noun

tsunami c

1. tsunami

Declension

Declension of tsunami

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tsunami	tsunamin	tsunamier	tsunamierna
genitive	tsunamis	tsunamins	tsunamiers	tsunamiernas