Okinawa

See also: okinawa

English

Etymology

From Japanese 沖縄おきなわ (Okinawa).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): [oʊkəˈnɑːwə]

Proper noun

Okinawa

1. A group of islands known as the Okinawa Islands.
2. The main island in the Okinawa Islands; Okinawa Island, where the biggest urban settlement is the city of Naha.
   • 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. The Battle of Okinawa, which took place there in 1945, in World War II.
4. The southern-most prefecture of Japan.
5. A city in Okinawa Prefecture.

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: 沖繩おきなわ／冲绳 (cung¹ sing⁴), 沖繩おきなわ縣けん／冲绳县 (cung¹ sing⁴ jyun⁶)

  Mandarin: 沖繩おきなわ／冲绳 (zh) (Chōngshéng), 沖繩おきなわ縣けん／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: 沖縄おきなわ (ja) (おきなわ, Okinawa), 沖縄おきなわ県けん (ja) (おきなわけん, Okinawa-ken)
• Korean: 오키나와 (ko) (Okinawa), 오키나와 현 (Okinawa hyeon)
• Kunigami: 沖縄おきなわ (ふちなー, Fuchinā)
• Lithuanian: Okinava (lt) f, Okinavos prefektūra
• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: ओकिनावा (okināvā)
• Miyako: 沖縄おきなわ (うきぃなー, Uksïnā)
• Okinawan: 沖縄おきなわ (うちなー, Uchinā), 沖縄おきなわ県けん (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: 沖縄おきなわ (うきぃなー, Ukïnā)
• Yonaguni: 沖縄おきなわ (うんな, Unna)

city

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

  Cantonese: 沖繩おきなわ市し／冲绳市し (cung¹ sing⁴ si⁵)

  Mandarin: 沖繩おきなわ市し／冲绳市し (Chōngshéngshì)

• Czech: Okinawa f
• Finnish: Okinawa (fi)
• Japanese: 沖縄おきなわ市し (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

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