津波

Japanese
Kanji in this term
津 波
つ
Grade: S		 なみ
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compound of 津 (tsu, “cove, inlet, outlet”) +‎ 波 (nami, “wave”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

津波 (hiragana つなみ, rōmaji tsunami)

  1. (oceanography) a tsunami; a tidal wave[5]
    • 1999 December 1, “海竜神リバイアサン [Leviathan]”, in BOOSTER 6, Konami:
      海 (うみ)の主 (おも)と呼 (よ)ばれる海 (うみ)のドラゴン。津 (つ)波 (なみ)をおこして全 (すべ)てを飲 (の)み込 (こ)む。
      Umi no Omo to yobareru umi no doragon. Tsunami o okoshite subete o nomikomu.
      A sea dragon known as the Lord of the Sea. He swallows everything and causes tsunami.
  2. (hydrology, rare) a tidal bore

Usage notes

The 海嘯 spelling is specific to the tidal bore sense.[4]

This term is sometimes encountered as the compound 地震津波 (jishin tsunami, literally “earthquake tsunami”), to make the meaning more explicitly clear and disambiguate from the tidal bore sense.

Synonyms
Synonyms
  • (tidal bore): 潮津波 (しおつなみ) (shio tsunami)

Derived terms
Derived terms

Descendants

See also

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  4. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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