kamikaze

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkæ.mɪˈkɑː.zi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑ.mɪˈkɑː.zi/,
• (emulating Japanese) IPA^(key): /kɑː.mɪˈkɑː.zeɪ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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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.

• kamikaze drone

• hara-kiri
• hero
• juramentado
• martyr
• seppuku
• shaheed
• suicide
• suicide bomber

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.

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.

• Discussion of this term on Languagehat, a language blog

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)

1. kamikaze

• kamikadze

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -azɛ

kamikaze m anim

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ka.mi.kaz/, /ka.mi.ka.ze/

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kamikaze m or f by sense (plural kamikazes)

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

• drone kamikaze

• attentat-suicide

• “kamikaze”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

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Wikipedia ^id

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

• IPA^(key): /kamikaze/

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

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

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

kamikaze m (invariable)

1. kamikaze

• attentatore

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

kamikaze

1. Rōmaji transcription of かみかぜ

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

kamikaze

Wikipedia ^pt

• camicase

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

• Hyphenation: ka‧mi‧ka‧ze

kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)

1. kamikaze

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kamikaze.

kamikaze m or f (plural kamikazes)

1. kamikaze

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kamikaze.

Borrowed from French kamikaze.

kamikaze n (uncountable)

1. kamikaze

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

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

kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)

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

• “kamikaze”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

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kamikaze

1. kamikaze

• kamikazeattack
• kamikazedrönare
• kamikazepilot