Nagasaki

English

Nagasaki, after the bomb (Fat Man) was dropped.

Alternative forms

• (obsolete, reflecting historical pronunciation) Nangasaki, Nangasacq
• (in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift) Nangasac

Proper noun

Nagasaki

1. A port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan, famous as the country's early modern entrepot and for its nuclear bombing on 9 August 1945 at the end of World War II.
   • 2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures:

     VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Translations

Japanese port

• Arabic: نَاغَاسَاكِي m (naḡasākī), نَاجَازَاكِي m (nagazākī)
• Armenian: Նագասակի (Nagasaki)
• Belarusian: Нагаса́кі m (Nahasáki)
• Bulgarian: Нагаса́ки (Nagasáki)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Наґаса́кі m (Nagasáki)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長崎／长崎 (zh) (Chángqí)

• Czech: Nagasaki (cs) n
• Finnish: Nagasaki
• Georgian: ნაგასაკი (nagasaḳi)
• German: Nagasaki (de), Nangasaki
• Greek: Ναγκασάκι (el) (Nagkasáki)
• Hebrew: נגסאקי (Nagasaki)
• Hindi: नागासाकी (nāgāsākī)
• Hungarian: Nagaszaki (hu)
• Japanese: 長崎 (ja) (ながさき, Nagasaki)
• Korean: 나가사키 (Nagasaki), 나가사끼 (Nagasakki) (North Korea)
• Latin: Nagasacium (la), Nagasaki (la)
• Macedonian: Нагаса́ки (Nagasáki)
• Marathi: नागासाकी (nāgāsākī)
• Persian: ناکازاکی (nâkâzâki), ناگازاکی (nâgâzâki)
• Portuguese: Nagasaki (pt) f, Nagasáqui (pt) f, Nangasáqui f, Nangasaque f
• Russian: Нагаса́ки (ru) m (Nagasáki)
• Serbo-Croatian: Нагасаки
• Tajik: Нагасаки (Nagasak-i)
• Tamil: நாகசாகி (nākacāki)
• Thai: นะงะซะกิ (nángáságì)
• Turkish: Nagasaki
• Ukrainian: Наґаса́кі (uk) m (Nagasáki), Нагаса́кі (uk) m (Nahasáki)
• Uyghur: ناگاساكى (nagasaki)
• Vietnamese: Nagasaki

Anagrams

• Gianakas, nagaikas, saganaki

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 長(なが)崎(さき) (Nagasaki).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnaɡasakɪ]
• Rhymes: -akɪ
• Hyphenation: Na‧ga‧sa‧ki

Proper noun

Nagasaki n (indeclinable, related adjective nagasacký)

1. Nagasaki (a prefecture of Japan)
2. Nagasaki (a port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan)

Further reading

• “Nagasaki”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Nagasaki”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Japanese

Romanization

Nagasaki

1. Rōmaji transcription of ながさき

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 長(なが)崎(さき) (Nagasaki).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /na.ɡaˈza.ki/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /na.ɡaˈza.ki/ [na.ɣaˈza.ki]

Proper noun

Nagasaki f

1. Alternative form of Nagasáqui

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 長(なが)崎(さき) (Nagasaki).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nɑɡɑsɑci]
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [nɑɡɑzɑːci]

Proper noun

Nagasaki

1. Nagasaki (a port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan)
2. Nagasaki (a prefecture of Japan)

Declension

    Declension of Nagasaki

	singular	plural
nominative	Nagasaki	Nagasakiler / Nagasaki'ler
accusative	Nagasaki'yi	Nagasakileri / Nagasaki'leri
dative	Nagasaki'ye	Nagasakilere / Nagasaki'lere
locative	Nagasaki'de	Nagasakilerde / Nagasaki'lerde
ablative	Nagasaki'den	Nagasakilerden / Nagasaki'lerden
genitive	Nagasaki'nin	Nagasakilerin / Nagasaki'lerin

    Possession of Nagasaki

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Nagasaki'm	Nagasakilerim / Nagasaki'lerim
senin (your)	Nagasaki'n	Nagasakilerin / Nagasaki'lerin
onun (his/her/its)	Nagasaki'si	Nagasakileri / Nagasaki'leri
bizim (our)	Nagasaki'miz	Nagasakilerimiz / Nagasaki'lerimiz
sizin (your)	Nagasaki'niz	Nagasakileriniz / Nagasaki'leriniz
onların (their)	Nagasaki'si / Nagasakileri / Nagasaki'leri	Nagasakileri / Nagasaki'leri

Derived terms

• Nagasakili