Okinawa

See also: okinawa

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɒkiːˈnɑːwə/, /ˌəʊkiːˈnɑːwə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊkiˈnɑwə/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːwə

Proper noun

Okinawa

1. An island, city, and prefecture of Japan.

   Synonym: (uncommon) Uchina

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.

Derived terms

• Battle of Okinawa
• Okinawan
• Okinawa diet

Translations

prefecture

• Ainu: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: الْأُوكِينَاوَا f (al-ʔūkīnāwā), مُحَافَظَة أُوكِينَاوَا (muḥāfaẓa(t) ʔūkīnāwā)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 沖繩 / 冲绳 (cung¹ sing⁴), 沖繩縣 / 冲绳县 (cung¹ sing⁴ jyun⁶)

  Mandarin: 沖繩 / 冲绳 (zh) (Chōngshéng), 沖繩縣 / 冲绳县 (zh) (Chōngshéngxiàn)

• Cia-Cia: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: Okinawa f
• Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: Okinawa (fi)
• Hawaiian: ʻOkinawa
• Hebrew: אוקינווה m (okináva)
• Japanese: 沖縄 (ja) (おきなわ, Okinawa), 沖縄県 (ja) (おきなわけん, Okinawa-ken)
• Korean: 오키나와 (ko) (Okinawa), 오키나와 현 (Okinawa hyeon)
• Kunigami: 沖縄 (ふちなー, Fuchinā)
• Lithuanian: Okinava (lt) f, Okinavos prefektūra
• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: ओकिनावा (okināvā)
• Miyako: 沖縄 (うきぃなー, Uksïnā)
• Okinawan: 沖縄 (うちなー, Uchinā), 沖縄県 (うちなーちん, Uchinā-chin)
• Polish: Okinawa (pl)
• Portuguese: Okinawa (pt) f, Oquinaua (pt) f (rare)
• Russian: Окина́ва (ru) f (Okináva), Префекту́ра Окина́ва f (Prefektúra Okináva)
• Samogitian: Okinava f
• Slovak: Okinava f
• Southern Amami Ōshima: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: Okinawa (es)
• Tibetan: ཨོ་ཀི་ན་ལྦ། (o ki na lba)
• Vietnamese: Okinawa, Tỉnh Okinawa
• Yaeyama: 沖縄 (うきぃなー, Ukïnā)
• Yonaguni: 沖縄 (うんな, Unna)

city

• Ainu: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: أُوكِينَاوَا f (ʔūkīnāwā), مَدِينَة أُوكِينَاوَا (madīna(t) ʔūkīnāwā)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 沖繩市 / 冲绳市 (cung¹ sing⁴ si⁵)

  Mandarin: 沖繩市 / 冲绳市 (Chōngshéngshì)

• Czech: Okinawa f
• Finnish: Okinawa (fi)
• Japanese: 沖縄市 (おきなわし, Okinawa-shi)
• Korean: 오키나와 시 (Okinawa si)
• Marathi: ओकिनावा (okināvā)
• Okinawan: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: Okinawa (pt) f
• Russian: Окина́ва (ru) f (Okináva)
• Vietnamese: Okinawa, Thành phố Okinawa

See also

• (prefectures of Japan) Japan; 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

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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

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

Declension

Declension of Okinawa (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Okinawa
genitive	Okinawy
dative	Okinawě
accusative	Okinawu
vocative	Okinawo
locative	Okinawě
instrumental	Okinawou

Further reading

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

Ilocano

Alternative forms

• Okinawa Japan

Etymology

Borrowed from English Okinawa, due to its similarities with the swear word ukinana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔokinˈnawa/ [ʔo.kinˈna.wa]
• Hyphenation: O‧ki‧na‧wa

Interjection

Okináwa (minced oath, slightly vulgar, colloquial)

1. Alternative form of ukinana

Japanese

Romanization

Okinawa

1. Rōmaji transcription of おきなわ

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Oquinaua (rare)

Proper noun

Okinawa f

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

Spanish

Proper noun

Okinawa f

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