Kanazawa

English

Etymology

From Japanese 金沢(かなざわ) (Kanazawa, literally “golden marsh”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkanəˈzɑːwə/, enPR: kăn'ə-zäʹwə
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑnəˈzɑwə/, enPR: kä'nə-zäʹwə
• Hyphenation: Ka‧na‧za‧wa

Proper noun

Kanazawa

1. The capital city of Ishikawa Prefecture, central Honshū, Japan.
2. A ward of the city of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kantō region, Japan.
3. A surname from Japanese.

Translations

city in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

• Arabic: كَانَازَاوَا f (kanazāwā)
• Bulgarian: Канадзава f (Kanadzava)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 金澤／金泽 (gam¹ zaak⁶)

  Mandarin: 金澤／金泽 (Jīnzé)

• Esperanto: Kanazaŭa
• Hungarian: Kanazava (hu)
• Japanese: 金沢 (ja) (Kanazawa)
• Korean: 가나자와 (Ganajawa)
• Lithuanian: Kanadzava f
• Marathi: कानाजावा m (kānājāvā)
• Russian: Канадза́ва (ru) f (Kanadzáva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Каназава f

  Roman: Kanazava f

• Thai: คานาซาวะ (kaa-naa-saa-wá)
• Vietnamese: Kanazawa

Anagrams

• Nakazawa

Japanese

Romanization

Kanazawa

1. Rōmaji transcription of かなざわ