Hiroshima

See also: Hiroshimą

English

Hiroshima, after the bomb was dropped.

Etymology

From Japanese 広(ひろ)島(しま) (Hiroshima).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɪ(ə)ˈɹɒʃɪmə/, /hɪ(ə)ɹəˈʃiːmə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /hɪˈɹoʊʃɪmə/, /hɪɹoʊˈʃiːmə/

Proper noun

Hiroshima

2. A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan.
4. The capital city of Hiroshima prefecture, Japan; the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.
   • 1945 August 6, Harry S. Truman, 0:18 from the start, in VT2008-9-2 President Truman Announces Bombing of Hiroshima‎^[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 23630, archived from the original on 02 November 2021:

     A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.

5. The 1945 atomic bombing of the city.
   • 2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures:

     VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Translations

a city in Honshu, Japan

• Arabic: هِيرُوشِيمَا f (hirušīmā)
• Armenian: Հիրոսիմա (Hirosima)
• Bulgarian: Хироши́ма f (Hirošíma)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Гіроші́ма f (Hirošíma)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廣島 / 广岛 (gwong² dou²)

  Mandarin: 廣島 / 广岛 (zh) (Guǎngdǎo)

• Czech: Hirošima (cs) f
• Dutch: Hiroshima
• Esperanto: Hiroŝimo
• Finnish: Hiroshima (fi)
• German: Hiroschima
• Greek: Χιροσίμα (el) f (Chirosíma)
• Hindi: हिरोशिमा m (hirośimā)
• Hungarian: Hirosima (hu)
• Italian: Hiroshima (it), Iroscima
• Japanese: 広島 (ja) (ひろしま, Hiroshima)
• Korean: 히로시마 (Hirosima)
• Latin: Hiroshima f
• Maltese: Hiroshima, Ħiroxima
• Marathi: हिरोशिमा (hirośimā)
• Mongolian: Хирошима (Xirošima)
• Persian: هیروشیما (hirošimâ)
• Polish: Hiroshima (pl), Hirosima (pl), Hiroszima (pl)
• Portuguese: Hiroxima (pt)
• Romanian: Hiroshima
• Russian: Хироси́ма (ru) f (Xirosíma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хироши́ма f

  Roman: Hirošíma (sh) f

• Thai: ฮิโรชิมะ (hí-roo-chí-má)
• Turkish: Hiroşima (tr)
• Uyghur: خىروشىما (xiroshima)

Trivia

The bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was the uranium-fired Little Boy. Three days later, Nagasaki was nuked. These remain, as of 2024, the only time nuclear bombs have actually been fired off in anger.

Noun

Hiroshima

1. (figuratively) A catastrophe.
   • 2011 April, Michael Joseph Gross, “A Declaration of Cyber-War”, in Vanity Fair:

     Stuxnet is the Hiroshima of cyber-war.

See also

prefectures of Japanedit

• Aichi
• Akita
• Aomori
• Chiba
• Ehime
• Fukui
• Fukuoka
• Fukushima
• Gifu
• Gunma
• Hiroshima
• Hokkaidō
• Hyōgo
• Ibaraki
• Ishikawa
• Iwate
• Kagawa
• Kagoshima
• Kanagawa
• Kōchi
• Kumamoto
• Kyoto
• Mie
• Miyagi
• Miyazaki
• Nagano
• Nagasaki
• Nara
• Niigata
• Ōita
• Okayama
• Okinawa
• Osaka
• Saga
• Saitama
• Shiga
• Shimane
• Shizuoka
• Tochigi
• Tokushima
• Tokyo
• Tottori
• Toyama
• Wakayama
• Yamagata
• Yamaguchi
• Yamanashi

German

Alternative forms

• Hiroschima

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiˈʁɔʃima/, (rare) /hiʁoˈʃiːma/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Hiroshima n (proper noun, genitive Hiroshimas or (optionally with an article) Hiroshima)

1. Hiroshima (a prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan)
2. Hiroshima (the capital city of Hiroshima prefecture, Japan; the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945)

Japanese

Romanization

Hiroshima

1. Rōmaji transcription of ひろしま

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Hiroshima.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xi.rɔˈɕi.ma/, /xi.rɔˈʂi.ma/
• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: Hi‧ro‧shi‧ma

Proper noun

Hiroshima f (related adjective hiroshimski)

1. Alternative spelling of Hiroszima:
   1. Hiroshima (a prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan)
   2. Hiroshima (the capital city of Hiroshima prefecture, Japan; the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945)

Declension

Declension of Hiroshima

	singular
nominative	Hiroshima
genitive	Hiroshimy
dative	Hiroshimie
accusative	Hiroshimę
instrumental	Hiroshimą
locative	Hiroshimie
vocative	Hiroshimo

Further reading

• Hiroshima in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /i.ɾoˈʃĩ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /i.ɾoˈʃĩ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /i.ɾoˈʃi.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.ɾɔˈʃi.mɐ/

Proper noun

Hiroshima f

1. Alternative form of Hiroxima:
   1. Hiroshima (a prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan)
   2. Hiroshima (the capital city of Hiroshima prefecture, Japan; the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945)