kamikaze

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, “divine wind”)).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkæmɪˈkɑːzi/
• (emulating Japanese) IPA^(key): /kɑːmɪˈkɑːzeɪ/

kamikaze (plural kamikazes)

1. An attack requiring the suicide of the one carrying it out, especially when done with an aircraft.
2. One who carries out a suicide attack, especially with an aircraft.
3. (colloquial) One who takes excessive risks, as for example in a sporting event.
4. A cocktail made of equal parts vodka, triple sec and lime juice.
5. (surfing) A deliberate wipeout.

• hara-kiri
• seppuku
• suicide
• suicide bomber

kamikaze (third-person singular simple present kamikazes, present participle kamikazeing, simple past and past participle kamikazed)

1. (transitive) To destroy (a ship, etc.) in a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
2. (intransitive) To carry out a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
3. (intransitive, slang) To fail disastrously.

kamikaze (not comparable)

1. suicidal, risking one's own life
   • 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic‎, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, ISSN 0027-9358, OCLC 1049714034, archived from the original on 14 June 2018:

     Sheathed in helmets, gloves, and jackets, they look more like manic video game figures than humans. They weave through traffic and around double-decker buses at kamikaze velocity.

• Discussion of this term on Languagehat, a language blog

kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)

1. kamikaze

• kamikadze

• IPA^(key): [ˈkamɪkazɛ]
• Rhymes: -azɛ

kamikaze m anim

1. kamikaze (one who makes an attack requiring his suicide, especially when done with an aircraft)

• kamikaze in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, “suicide flyer”, literally “divine wind”)).

• IPA^(key): /ka.mi.kaz/, /ka.mi.ka.ze/

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kamikaze m or f (plural kamikazes)

1. kamikaze (person carrying out a suicide attack); suicide bomber

• attentat-suicide

• “kamikaze” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, “divine wind”)).

• IPA^(key): /kamikaze/

kamikaze (plural kamikaze-kamikaze, first-person possessive kamikazeku, second-person possessive kamikazemu, third-person possessive kamikazenya)

1. the typhoons that saved Japan from invasion, divine wind
2. a kamikaze, a suicide pilot in World War Two

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ, kamikaze, “suicide flyer”, literally “divine wind”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.miˈka.ze/, [kämiˈkäːz̪e̞]
• IPA^(key): /ka.miˈka.d͡ze/, [kämiˈkäːd̪͡z̪e̞]
• Rhymes: -aze
• Stress: kamikàze
• Hyphenation: ka‧mi‧ka‧ze

kamikaze m (invariable)

1. kamikaze

• attentatore

• kamikaze in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

kamikaze

1. Rōmaji transcription of かみかぜ

• camicase

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, “suicide flyer”, literally “divine wind”)).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ka.mi.ˈka.zɨ/
• Hyphenation: ka‧mi‧ka‧ze

kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)

1. kamikaze

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:kamikaze.

kamikaze m or f (plural kamikazes, comparable)

1. kamikaze

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:kamikaze.

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, “suicide flyer”, literally “divine wind”)).

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /kamiˈkaθe/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /kamiˈkase/
• Rhymes: -aθe, -ase

kamikaze m (plural kamikazes)

1. kamikaze