さみだれ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of さみだれ – see the following entry.

【五月雨】 [noun] a heavy rain that occurs around the fifth lunar month; an early summer rain [noun] (figurative) that which repeats over and over without lasting long [proper noun] a Shiratsuyu-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II (see Japanese destroyer Samidare (1935) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ) [proper noun] a place name

(This term, さみだれ (samidare), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)