kamikaze

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• kä′mĭ-kä′zē
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌkɑː.mɪˈkɑː.ziː/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˌkɑ.mɪˈkɑ.zi/
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• Australian: /ˌkɐː.mɪˈkɐː.ziː/
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• New-Zealand: /ˌkɐː.məˈkɐː.ziː/
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• Scotland: /ˌka.mɪˈka.zi/
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Borrowed from Japanese 神風(かみかぜ) (kamikaze, “divine wind”), from 神(かみ) (kami, “divine”) + 風(かぜ) (kaze, “wind”); which originally referred to the typhoon that destroyed the Mongol navy attacking Japan in 1281.

82 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: هُجُومٌ إِنْتِحَارِيّ (hujūmun ʔintiḥāriyy) — suicidal attack
• Arabic: كَامِيكَازِي (kāmīkāzī) — suicidal attack
• Azerbaijani: kamikadze — suicidal attack
• Chinese Mandarin: 神風 /神风 (shénfēng) — suicidal attack
• Chinese Mandarin: 神風攻擊 /神风攻击 (shénfēng gōngjí) — suicidal attack
• Danish: kamikazeaktion — suicidal attack
• Finnish: itsemurhahyökkäys — suicidal attack
• Galician: kamikaze — suicidal attack
• Georgian: კამიკაძე (ḳamiḳaʒe) — suicidal attack
• German: Himmelfahrtskommando — suicidal attack
• German: Selbstmordanschlag — suicidal attack
• German: Selbstmordangriff — suicidal attack
• German: Selbstmordattentat — suicidal attack
• Greek: επίθεση αυτοκτονίας (epíthesi aftoktonías) — suicidal attack
• Indonesian: kamikaze — suicidal attack
• Japanese: 神風攻撃 (kamikaze kōgeki) — suicidal attack
• Japanese: 神風 (kamikaze) — suicidal attack
• Japanese: 体当たり (taiatari) — suicidal attack
• Korean: 가미카제 (gamikaje) — suicidal attack
• Korean: 다이아타리 (daiatari) — suicidal attack
• Kyrgyz: камикадзе (kamikadze) — suicidal attack
• Kyrgyz: жанкечти (jankecti) — suicidal attack
• Malay: kamikaze — suicidal attack
• Persian: کامیکازه (kâmikâze) — suicidal attack
• Polish: atak samobójczy — suicidal attack
• Portuguese: camicase — suicidal attack
• Portuguese: kamikaze — suicidal attack
• Russian: камика́дзе (kamikádzɛ) — suicidal attack
• Spanish: kamikaze — suicidal attack
• Swedish: kamikaze — suicidal attack
• Turkish: kamikaze — suicidal attack
• Vietnamese: thần phong — suicidal attack
• Welsh: camicasi — suicidal attack
• Welsh: kamikaze — suicidal attack
• Arabic: اِنْتِحَارِيّ (intiḥāriyy) — suicidal attacker
• Arabic: كَامِيكَازِي (kāmīkāzī) — suicidal attacker
• Armenian: կամիկաձե (kamikaje) — suicidal attacker
• Belarusian: каміка́дзэ (kamikádze) — suicidal attacker
• Belarusian: сме́ртнік (smjértnik) — suicidal attacker
• Belarusian: сме́ртніца (smjértnica) — suicidal attacker
• Belarusian: смяро́тнік (smjarótnik) — suicidal attacker
• Belarusian: смяро́тніца (smjarótnica) — suicidal attacker
• Bulgarian: камика́дзе (kamikádze) — suicidal attacker
• Catalan: kamikaze — suicidal attacker
• Chinese Mandarin: 神風特攻隊 /神风特攻队 (shénfēng tègōngduì) — suicidal attacker
• Chinese Mandarin: 神風特別攻擊隊 /神风特别攻击队 (shénfēng tèbié gōngjí duì) — suicidal attacker
• Danish: kamikaze — suicidal attacker
• Danish: kamikazepilot — suicidal attacker
• Danish: selvmordspilot — suicidal attacker
• Dutch: kamikaze — suicidal attacker
• Dutch: kamikazepiloot — suicidal attacker
• Esperanto: kamikazo — suicidal attacker
• Finnish: itsemurhapommittaja — suicidal attacker
• French: kamikaze — suicidal attacker
• Georgian: კამიკაძე (ḳamiḳaʒe) — suicidal attacker
• German: Selbstmordattentäter — suicidal attacker
• Greek: καμικάζι (kamikázi) — suicidal attacker
• Indonesian: kamikaze — suicidal attacker
• Japanese: 特別攻撃隊 (tokubetsu kōgekitai) — suicidal attacker
• Japanese: 特攻隊 (tokkōtai) — suicidal attacker
• Japanese: 神風特攻隊 (kamikaze tokkōtai) — suicidal attacker
• Korean: 가미카제 (gamikaje) — suicidal attacker
• Kyrgyz: камикадзе (kamikadze) — suicidal attacker
• Kyrgyz: жанкечти (jankecti) — suicidal attacker
• Macedonian: камиказе (kamikaze) — suicidal attacker
• Malay: kamikaze — suicidal attacker
• Norwegian Bokmål: kamikazeflyger — suicidal attacker
• Norwegian Bokmål: kamikazeflyver — suicidal attacker
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kamikazeflygar — suicidal attacker
• Polish: kamikaze — suicidal attacker
• Portuguese: camicase — suicidal attacker
• Russian: камика́дзе (kamikádzɛ) — suicidal attacker
• Russian: сме́ртник (smértnik) — suicidal attacker
• Russian: сме́ртница (smértnica) — suicidal attacker
• Spanish: kamikaze — suicidal attacker
• Swedish: kamikazepilot — suicidal attacker
• Ukrainian: каміка́дзе (kamikádze) — suicidal attacker
• Ukrainian: сме́ртник (smértnyk) — suicidal attacker
• Ukrainian: сме́ртниця (smértnycja) — suicidal attacker
• French: kamikazer — to commit a suicidal attack
• Polish: atakować samobójczo — to commit a suicidal attack
• Polish: zaatakować samobójczo — to commit a suicidal attack