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kamikaze

English

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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[1], 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

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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.

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Adjective

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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[2], 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

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Noun

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kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)

  1. kamikaze

Czech

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kamikaze m anim

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

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Declension of kamikaze (mostly indeclinable masculine animate)
singular plural
nominative kamikaze kamikaze
genitive kamikaze kamikaze
dative kamikaze kamikaze
accusative kamikaze kamikaze
vocative kamikaze kamikaze
locative kamikaze kamikaze
instrumental kamikazem kamikaze

Further reading

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

French

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Etymology

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

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kamikaze m or f by sense (plural kamikazes)

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

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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

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kamikaze (plural kamikaze-kamikaze)

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

Italian

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Etymology

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

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

Noun

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kamikaze m (invariable)

  1. kamikaze

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References

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

Further reading

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

Japanese

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Romanization

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kamikaze

  1. Rōmaji transcription of かみかぜ

Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

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  • Hyphenation: ka‧mi‧ka‧ze

Noun

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kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)

  1. kamikaze

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:kamikaze.

Adjective

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kamikaze m or f (plural kamikazes)

  1. kamikaze

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:kamikaze.

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French kamikaze.

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kamikaze n (uncountable)

  1. kamikaze

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singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative kamikaze kamikazeul
genitive-dative kamikaze kamikazeului
vocative kamikazeule

Spanish

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Etymology

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

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /kamiˈkaθe/ [ka.miˈka.θe]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kamiˈkase/ [ka.miˈka.se]
  • Rhymes: -aθe
  • Rhymes: -ase
  • Syllabification: ka‧mi‧ka‧ze

Noun

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kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)

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

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Swedish

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Noun

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kamikaze

  1. kamikaze

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