Godzilla

See also: Godzillą

English

Alternative forms

• Godzirra (evoking a Japanese accent)

Etymology

From Japanese ゴジラ (Gojira), blend created for the movie from the words ゴリラ (gorira, “gorilla”) and 鯨 (kujira, “whale”).

The phonetic shift from Goji- to Godzi- was probably to imply relation to the word God. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɑdˈzɪlə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɒdˈzɪlə/
• Rhymes: -ɪlə

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Proper noun

Godzilla

1. A fictional Japanese monster (kaiju) from a series of science-fiction films.
   • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?

Translations

Japanese science-fiction monster

• Arabic: غُودْزِيلَا m (ḡūdzīlā), غُدْزِيلَا m (ḡudzīlā)
• Armenian: Գոձիլա (Gojila)
• Azerbaijani: Qodzilla
• Bulgarian: Годзила m (Godzila)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 哥斯拉 (go¹ si¹ laai¹)

  Mandarin: 哥斯拉 (zh) (Gēsīlā)

• Esperanto: Godzilo (eo)
• Finnish: Godzilla
• French: Godzilla (fr) m
• German: Godzilla m
• Greek: Γκοντζίλα m (Gkontzíla), Γκοτζίλα m (Gkotzíla)
• Hebrew: גוֹדְזִילָה m (Godzíla)
• Hindi: गोडज़िला m (goḍzilā), गोडजिला m (goḍjilā), गोगोला m (gogolā) (uncommon)
• Italian: Godzilla m
• Japanese: ゴジラ (Gojira)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 고지라 (Gojira), 고질라 (Gojilla)
• Malayalam: ഗോഡ്സില്ല (gōḍsilla)
• Marathi: गॉडझिला m (gŏḍjhilā)
• Persian: گودزیلا (godzilâ)
• Polish: Godzilla (pl) m
• Portuguese: Godzilla m
• Romanian: Godzilla f
• Russian: Годзи́лла (ru) m (Godzílla)
• Tamil: காட்சில்லா (kāṭcillā)
• Thai: ก็อตซิลลา (gɔ̀t-sil-laa), ก็อตซิลล่า (gɔ̀t-sil-lâa)
• Ukrainian: Ґодзі́лла m (Godzílla)
• Vietnamese: Godzilla

Noun

Godzilla (plural Godzillas)

1. (figuratively) Anything that is an extremely large or dramatic example of its type.

   a Godzilla of a tower building

   • 2009, P. J. O'Rourke, Peace Kills‎^[2], Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

     Aren't we supposed to be a big, terrifying country, a Godzilla of capitalism wrecking the globe?

Derived terms

• godzillion
• -zilla

Further reading

• Godzilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Polish

Godzilla

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English Godzilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔˈd͡ʑil.la/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -illa
• Syllabification: Go‧dzil‧la

Proper noun

Godzilla m animal

1. Godzilla (fictional Japanese monster (kaiju) from a series of science-fiction films)

Declension

Declension of Godzilla

	singular
nominative	Godzilla
genitive	Godzilli
dative	Godzilli
accusative	Godzillę
instrumental	Godzillą
locative	Godzilli
vocative	Godzillo

Further reading

• Godzilla in Polish dictionaries at PWN