kami

See also: Kami, kāmi, and kāmī

English

A painting depicting Amaterasu, an important female kami in the Shinto religion.

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese (kami, god, spirit, deity).

Noun

kami (plural kami)

  1. (religion, Shinto) An animistic God or spirit in the Shinto religion of Japan.
  2. (philosophy) The metaphysical causal generator of motion, life, or divinish aura.
Translations

Etymology 2

Two sheets of kami for origami, and a traditional origami crane.

Borrowed from Japanese (kami, paper).

Noun

kami (plural kami)

  1. (papercraft) A basic origami paper, usually printed with a colour or pattern on one side.
Translations

Anagrams


Amis

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *kami.

Pronoun

kami

  1. we (exclusive of the person spoken to)

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ka‧mi

Etymology 1

Compare kami.

Pronoun

kami

  1. we; us (1st person plural exclusive absolutive form)

Etymology 2

From Giangan kami.

Noun

kami

  1. Indonesian cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay kami, from Proto-Malayic *kami, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kami, from Proto-Austronesian *kami.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kami/

Pronoun

kami

  1. we (exclusive); I and other(s) but not those I am addressing
    Kami sudah pergi ke pasar.We have been to the market.
  2. us (exclusive); me and other(s) but not those I am addressing
    Ibu: "Kamu sekalian sudah di mandi?"
    Anak-anak: "Kami?"
    Mother: "Have you all bathed yet?"
    Children: "Us?"
  3. our (exclusive); my and of other(s) but not of those I am addressing
    Adalah cicak besar di dinding kamar hotel kami: tolong bantu di ambil.There is a big gecko in our hotel room: please help have it removed.
  4. ours (if used with milik, kepunyaan, etc.)
    Hak Milik tanah bangsa Indonesia hanya untuk kami sekalian.It is only we [Indonesians] who have the right to own this Indonesian land.

Inonhan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kami, from Proto-Austronesian *kami.

Pronoun

kami

  1. we; us (exclusive of the person spoken to)

Japanese

Romanization

kami

  1. Rōmaji transcription of かみ

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *kami, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kami, from Proto-Austronesian *kami.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kami/
  • Rhymes: -ami, -mi, -i

Pronoun

kami

  1. we, us, our (exclusive)
  2. I, me, my

Descendants

See also


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kamy, preserving the reflex of word-final */y/, which was lost in standard words kȃm and kȁmēn.

Noun

kami m (Cyrillic spelling ками)

  1. (regional, obsolete) stone

References

  • Skok, Petar (1972) Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 2, Zagreb: JAZU, page 26

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kami, from Proto-Austronesian *kami.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈmɪ/ or IPA(key): /kaˈmɛ/ (colloquial)
  • (file)

Pronoun

kami

  1. we; us (exclusive of the person spoken to)
    Nagtatrabaho kami sa isang kumpanya. Ikaw?
    We work at a company. You?

See also

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