Toyota

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See also: toyota, toyotą, and Toyotą

English

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A Toyota logo.

Etymology

From Japanese トヨタ (Toyota), from the name of the Toyoda family. The spelling was changed to Toyota because of a belief that it sounded better, or because トヨタ takes eight strokes to write, and 8 is considered lucky.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Toyota (countable and uncountable, plural Toyotas)

  1. (countable) A surname from Japanese.
  2. A city near Nagoya in Japan, where the eponymous manufacturer has its headquarters.
  3. (automotive) The Toyota Motor Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of cars.
  4. (automotive) A brand of car manufactured by Toyota.
    Coordinate term: Lexus
    • 2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 139:
      It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.

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Translations

Noun

Toyota (plural Toyotas)

  1. (automotive) A car of the brand Toyota

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Further reading

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /toˈjoːta/
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Proper noun

Toyota n (proper noun, strong, genitive Toyotas)

  1. Toyota (company)

Noun

Toyota m (strong, genitive Toyotas or Toyota, plural Toyotas or Toyota)

  1. Toyota (car of that company)

Japanese

Romanization

Toyota

  1. Rōmaji transcription of とよた

See also

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 豊田 (Toyota) or Japanese トヨタ (Toyota).

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: To‧yo‧ta

Proper noun

Toyota f

  1. Toyota (a Japanese automotive manufacturer)