Okinawa

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Japanese 沖縄(おきなわ) (Okinawa).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Okinawa

  1. An island, city, and prefecture of Japan.
  2. A group of islands known as the Okinawa Islands.
    • 1964, Harry S. Truman, 1:38 from the start, in MP2002-288 Former President Truman Discusses the Battle of Okinawa[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162, archived from the original on 13 March 2022:
      We had to kill 110,000 Japanese before we took Okinawa, and when the officers of the Japanese are killed- or defeated- they commit suicide. They cost us 12,000 men and they had to kill 110,000 Japs. And it's a terrible thing- don't know what you're gonna do with any crazy outfit like that except all you can do is to destroy them, and that's too bad.
    • 2010, Walter Mondale, David Hage, The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics[2], Scribner, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 323:
      Anyone who knew our military installation in Okinawa knew it was a room full of gasoline waiting for someone to strike a match. We had forty-two bases on the island with more than twenty thousand personnel. All of them were living and conducting exercises right up against Okinawan civilian neighborhoods.
  3. (historical, World War II) The Battle of Okinawa, which took place there in 1945.

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Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Japanese 沖縄(おきなわ) (Okinawa).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈokɪnava]
  • Rhymes: -ava
  • Hyphenation: Oki‧na‧wa

Proper noun

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Okinawa f (related adjective okinawský, demonym Okinawan, female demonym Okinawanka)

  1. Okinawa (an island, city, and prefecture of Japan)

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Further reading

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  • Okinawa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • Okinawa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Japanese

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Romanization

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Okinawa

  1. Rōmaji transcription of おきなわ

Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Proper noun

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Okinawa f

  1. Okinawa (an island, city, and prefecture of Japan)

Spanish

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Proper noun

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Okinawa f

  1. Okinawa (an island, city, and prefecture of Japan)