shimada
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑːdə
Noun
shimada (plural shimadas)
- A traditional type of formal hairstyle for unmarried women in Japan, whereby the hair is gathered together and fastened to the top of the head.
Translations
hairstyle
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
shimada
Ye'kwana
Etymology
Borrowed from Arawakan; compare Lokono shimarha.
Pronunciation
Noun
shimada (possessed shimadai)
- arrow (weapon)
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “shimada”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “shima:da”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “šimāda”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021