Toyota

See also: toyota, toyotą, and Toyotą

English

A Toyota logo.

Etymology

From Japanese トヨタ (Toyota), from the name of the Toyoda family. The spelling was changed to Toyota because of a belief that it sounded better, or because トヨタ takes eight strokes to write, and 8 is considered lucky.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɔɪˈəʊtə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tɔɪˈoʊtə/, /taɪˈoʊtə/, [tɔɪ̯ˈoʊ̯ɾə], [taɪ̯ˈoʊ̯ɾə]
• Rhymes: -əʊtə

Proper noun

Toyota (countable and uncountable, plural Toyotas)

1. (countable) A surname from Japanese.
2. A city near Nagoya in Japan, where the eponymous manufacturer has its headquarters.
3. (automotive) The Toyota Motor Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of cars.
4. (automotive) A brand of car manufactured by Toyota.

   Coordinate term: Lexus

   • 2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 139:

     It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.

Derived terms

• Toyotaism
• Toyotism

 

Related terms

• Toyoda

 

Translations

Toyota Motor Corporation

• Arabic: تُويُوتَا (toyotā), تُويُوتَا (toyūtā), تُويُوتَا f (tuyūtā)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豐田 / 丰田 (zh) (Fēngtián)

• Hebrew: טויוטה (toyota)
• Hindi: टोयोटा (ṭoyoṭā)
• Japanese: トヨタ (Toyota), (founder's surname) 豊田 (とよだ, Toyoda)
• Korean: 도요타 (Doyota)
• Lao: ໂຕໂຢຕ້າ (tō yō tā)
• Lashi: Tuyuta
• Marathi: टोयोटा f (ṭoyoṭā)
• Persian: تویوتا (toyotâ)
• Polish: Toyota (pl) f
• Russian: Тойо́та f (Tojóta)
• Urdu: ٹویوٹا (ṭoyoṭā)

city in the Aichi Prefecture

• Arabic: تُويُوتَا (tuyūtā)
• Greek: Τογιότα (Togióta)
• Japanese: 豊田 (Toyota), 豊田市 (Toyota-shi)
• Korean: 도요타 (Doyota), 토요타 (Toyota)

Noun

Toyota (plural Toyotas)

2. (automotive) A car of the brand Toyota

Translations

a Toyota car

• French: Toyota (fr) f
• Polish: toyota (pl) f
• Slovak: toyota f
• Ukrainian: тойота f (tojota)

Further reading

• Toyota on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Toyota, Aichi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Toyota website

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈjoːta/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Toyota n (proper noun, strong, genitive Toyotas)

1. Toyota (company)

Noun

Toyota m (strong, genitive Toyotas or Toyota, plural Toyotas or Toyota)

1. Toyota (car of that company)

Japanese

Romanization

Toyota

1. Rōmaji transcription of とよた

See also

• Toyoda (Toyoda)

 

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 豊田 (Toyota) or Japanese トヨタ (Toyota).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌtojˈɔ.tɐ/ [ˌtoɪ̯ˈɔ.tɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌtojˈɔ.tɐ/ [ˌtoɪ̯ˈɔ.tɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌtojˈɔ.ta/ [ˌtoɪ̯ˈɔ.ta]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌtojˈɔ.tɐ/

• Hyphenation: To‧yo‧ta

Proper noun

Toyota f

1. Toyota (a Japanese automotive manufacturer)