shimada

See also: Shimada

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 島田.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːdə

Noun

shimada (plural shimadas)

1. A traditional type of formal hairstyle for unmarried women in Japan, whereby the hair is gathered together and fastened to the top of the head.

Translations

hairstyle

Anagrams

• Adamish, Ahmadis, Dashami, samadhi

Japanese

Romanization

shimada

1. Rōmaji transcription of しまだ

Ye'kwana

Etymology

Borrowed from Arawakan; compare Lokono shimarha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃimaːɾ̠a]

Noun

shimada (possessed shimadai)

1. arrow (weapon)

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “shimada”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “shima:da”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “šimāda”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021