さみだれ

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Japanese

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五月雨
a heavy rain that occurs around the fifth lunar month; an early summer rain
(figurative) that which repeats over and over without lasting long
a Shiratsuyu-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II (see Japanese destroyer Samidare (1935) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
a place name
(This term, さみだれ (samidare), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)