hentai
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pseudo-Japonism, derived from 変態 (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変態性欲者 (hentai seiyoku-sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈhɛntaɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛntaɪ
Noun
[edit]hentai (countable and uncountable, plural hentai or hentais)
- A work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art.
- 2019, “Hentai”, in Cry, performed by Cigarettes After Sex:
- There was a hentai video that I saw / I told you about the night that we first made love
- 2024 June 5, “Porn now officially allowed on X with safeguards for those under 18”, in Channel News Asia[1]:
- X defines adult content as […]
This definition also applies to "AI-generated, photographic or animated content such as cartoons, hentai or anime".
Descendants
[edit]- → Cebuano: hentai
- → Finnish: hentai
- → French: hentai
- → German: Hentai
- → Indonesian: hentai
- → Italian: hentai
- → Japanese: ヘンタイ (hentai)
- → Korean: 헨타이 (hentai)
- → Polish: hentai
- → Portuguese: hentai
- → Russian: хентай (xentaj)
- → Spanish: hentai
- → Swedish: hentai
- → Tagalog: hentai
- → Ukrainian: хента́й (xentáj)
Translations
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See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Cebuano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態 (hentai, “pervert”).
Noun
[edit]hentai
- hentai; a work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態 (hentai, “pervert”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hentai
- hentai (pornographic anime or manga)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of hentai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | hentai | hentait | |
genitive | hentain | hentaiden hentaitten | |
partitive | hentaita | hentaita | |
illative | hentaihin | hentaihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | hentai | hentait | |
accusative | nom. | hentai | hentait |
gen. | hentain | ||
genitive | hentain | hentaiden hentaitten | |
partitive | hentaita | hentaita | |
inessive | hentaissa | hentaissa | |
elative | hentaista | hentaista | |
illative | hentaihin | hentaihin | |
adessive | hentailla | hentailla | |
ablative | hentailta | hentailta | |
allative | hentaille | hentaille | |
essive | hentaina | hentaina | |
translative | hentaiksi | hentaiksi | |
abessive | hentaitta | hentaitta | |
instructive | — | hentain | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態 (hentai, “pervert”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (aspirated h)IPA(key): /ɛn.taj/
Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]hentai m (plural hentais)
- hentai (a work of anime or manga—Japanese cartoon art, respectively animated and static—that contains pornography)
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態 (hentai, “pervert”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hentai
- hentai (pornographic anime or manga)
Adjective
[edit]hentai
Further reading
[edit]- “hentai” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]hentai
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態 (hentai, “pervert”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: hen‧tai
Noun
[edit]hentai m (plural hentais)
- hentai (a work of anime or manga — Japanese cartoon art, respectively animated and static — that contains pornography)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態 (hentai, “pervert”).
Noun
[edit]hentai m (plural hentais)
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態 (hentai, “pervert”).
Noun
[edit]hentai c
- hentai (pornographic anime or manga)
Declension
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | hentai | hentais |
definite | hentaien | hentaiens | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態 (hentai, “pervert”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈhentaj/ [ˈhɛn̪.t̪aɪ̯]
- Rhymes: -entaj
- Syllabification: hen‧tai
Noun
[edit]hentai (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜁ)
- hentai (sexual or pornographic anime or manga)
- English pseudo-loans from Japanese
- English terms derived from Japanese
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɛntaɪ
- Rhymes:English/ɛntaɪ/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English indeclinable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Erotic literature
- en:Fiction
- en:Japanese fiction
- en:Pornography
- Cebuano terms borrowed from English
- Cebuano terms derived from English
- Cebuano terms derived from Japanese
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano nouns
- ceb:Fiction
- ceb:Japanese fiction
- ceb:Pornography
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish terms derived from Japanese
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/entɑi
- Rhymes:Finnish/entɑi/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish maa-type nominals
- French terms borrowed from English
- French terms derived from English
- French terms derived from Japanese
- French terms with aspirated h
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Japanese fiction
- fr:Pornography
- Indonesian terms borrowed from English
- Indonesian terms derived from English
- Indonesian terms derived from Japanese
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- Indonesian adjectives
- id:Japanese fiction
- id:Pornography
- Japanese non-lemma forms
- Japanese romanizations
- Portuguese terms borrowed from English
- Portuguese terms derived from English
- Portuguese terms derived from Japanese
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Erotic literature
- pt:Fiction
- pt:Japanese fiction
- pt:Pornography
- Spanish terms borrowed from English
- Spanish terms derived from English
- Spanish terms derived from Japanese
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Swedish terms borrowed from English
- Swedish terms derived from English
- Swedish terms derived from Japanese
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Tagalog terms borrowed from English
- Tagalog terms derived from English
- Tagalog terms derived from Japanese
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/entaj
- Rhymes:Tagalog/entaj/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script