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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風(かみ​かぜ) (kami​kaze, divine wind).

Pronunciation

Noun

kamikaze (plural kamikazes)

  1. An attack requiring the suicide of the one carrying it out, especially when done with an aircraft.
  2. One who carries out a suicide attack, especially with an aircraft.
  3. A vehicle used for a suicide attack, especially an aircraft.
    • 2020 February 12, Drachinifel, 8:16 from the start, in The Mark 14 Torpedo - Failure is Like Onions, archived from the original on 24 November 2022:
      Coupled with this were issues involving actually getting enough torpedoes out there to the fleet in the first place! Whilst they were a munition, a torpedo is far more complex and took far longer to build than a shell for a naval gun, even a battleship shell. Torpedoes, remember, are effectively small self-guiding kamikaze submarines, and, so, unless you have a large factory and an extensive production line going, you're only gonna see handfuls produced each year.
  4. (colloquial) One who takes excessive risks, as for example in a sporting event.
  5. A cocktail made of equal parts vodka, triple sec and lime juice.
  6. (surfing) A deliberate wipeout.

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Verb

kamikaze (third-person singular simple present kamikazes, present participle kamikazeing, simple past and past participle kamikazed)

  1. (transitive) To destroy (a ship, etc.) in a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
  2. (intransitive) To carry out a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
  3. (intransitive, slang) To fail disastrously.

Translations

Adjective

kamikaze (not comparable)

  1. Suicidal, risking one's own life.
    • 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 June 2018:
      Sheathed in helmets, gloves, and jackets, they look more like manic video game figures than humans. They weave through traffic and around double-decker buses at kamikaze velocity.
  2. Having or showing reckless disregard for safety or personal welfare.

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)

  1. kamikaze

Czech

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

kamikaze m anim

  1. kamikaze (one who makes an attack requiring his suicide, especially when done with an aircraft)

Declension

Further reading

  • kamikaze in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, suicide flyer, literally divine wind)).

Pronunciation

Noun

kamikaze m or f by sense (plural kamikazes)

  1. kamikaze (person carrying out a suicide attack); suicide bomber

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Further reading

Indonesian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風(かみかぜ) (kamikaze, divine wind).

Pronunciation

Noun

kamikaze (first-person possessive kamikazeku, second-person possessive kamikazemu, third-person possessive kamikazenya)

  1. the typhoons that saved Japan from invasion, divine wind
  2. a kamikaze, a suicide pilot in World War Two

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, suicide flyer, literally divine wind)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.miˈka.ze/, /ka.miˈkad.d͡ze/[1]
  • Rhymes: -aze, -addze
  • Hyphenation: ka‧mi‧kà‧ze

Noun

kamikaze m (invariable)

  1. kamikaze

See also

References

  1. ^ kamikaze in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

  • kamikaze in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Japanese

Romanization

kamikaze

  1. Rōmaji transcription of かみかぜ

Portuguese

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, suicide flyer, literally divine wind)).

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: ka‧mi‧ka‧ze

Noun

kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)

  1. kamikaze

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kamikaze.

Adjective

kamikaze m or f (plural kamikazes)

  1. kamikaze

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kamikaze.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French kamikaze.

Noun

kamikaze n (uncountable)

  1. kamikaze

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, suicide flyer, literally divine wind)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /kamiˈkaθe/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kamiˈkase/
  • Rhymes: -aθe
  • Rhymes: -ase
  • Syllabification: ka‧mi‧ka‧ze

Noun

kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)

  1. kamikaze
  2. ghost driver, wrong-way driver

Further reading

Swedish

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Noun

kamikaze

  1. kamikaze

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