Shinto

See also: shinto, shintō, and Shintō

English

Alternative forms

• Shintō

Etymology

Borrowing from Japanese 神道 (Shintō), from Middle Chinese 神道 (MC ʑiɪn dɑu^X, “ways of the gods”), ultimately from Old Chinese 神道 (OC *hlin l'uːʔ, “ways [doings] of Heaven [in matters of fortune or fate]”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪn.təʊ/

• Audio (southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪn.toʊ/

Proper noun

Shinto

1. Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.
   • 1905, W.G. Aston, Shinto: The Way of the Gods, page 66:

     The number of Shinto deities is very great. The Yengishiki enumerates 3,132 officially recognized shrines, and although the same Gods are reckoned more than once, as being worshipped in different places, still their name is legion.

Coordinate terms

• (religions) religion; agnosticism,‎ Asatru,‎ atheism,‎ Ayyavazhi,‎ Baháʼí Faith,‎ Bon,‎ Buddhism,‎ Cao Dai,‎ Cheondoism,‎ Christianity,‎ deism,‎ Druidry,‎ Druze,‎ Eckankar,‎ Heathenry,‎ Hinduism,‎ Islam,‎ Jainism,‎ Jediism,‎ Judaism,‎ Kimbanguism,‎ Odinism,‎ paganism,‎ Pastafarianism,‎ Raëlism,‎ Rastafarianism,‎ Rodnovery,‎ Romuva,‎ Samaritanism,‎ Sanamahism,‎ Shinto,‎ Sikhism,‎ Taoism,‎ Thelema,‎ Unitarian Universalism,‎ Wicca,‎ Yahwism,‎ Yazidism,‎ Yoruba,‎ Zoroastrianism ^{(Category: en:Religion) [edit]}

Derived terms

• Shintoism
• Shintoist
• Shintoistic

Translations

religion

• Afrikaans: sjintoïsme
• Arabic: شِنْتُو‎ m (šintū)
• Aragonese: xintoísmo
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: sintoizm
• Belarusian: сінтаі́зм m (sintaízm)
• Bulgarian: шинтои́зъм m (šintoízǎm)
• Catalan: xintoisme m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 神道 (san⁴ dou⁶)

  Mandarin: 神道 (zh) (shéndào)

  Min Nan: 神道 (sîn-tō)

• Czech: šintoismus (cs) m
• Dutch: Shintoïsme n
• Esperanto: ŝintoismo, Ŝintoo
• Estonian: sintoism
• Finnish: šintolaisuus (fi), šinto (fi)
• French: shintoïsme (fr) m, shinto (fr)
• Frisian: sjintoisme
• Friulian: sintoisim
• Georgian: შინტოიზმი (šinṭoizmi)
• German: Schintoismus (de) m, Shintoismus (de) m, Sintoismus m
• Greek: σιντοϊσμός (el) m (sintoïsmós)
• Hebrew: שינטו‎ m (shinto)
• Hindi: शिन्तो धर्म m (śinto dharm)
• Hungarian: sintó (hu), sintoizmus
• Icelandic: sjintóismi
• Indonesian: Shinto
• Italian: shintoismo (it) m, scintoismo (it) m
• Japanese: 神道 (ja) (しんとう, shintō)
• Korean: 신도 (ko) (sindo), 신토 (sinto)
• Latvian: sintoisms
• Ligurian: scintoiximo
• Lithuanian: šintoizmas m
• Low German: Schintoismus
• Luxembourgish: Schintoismus
• Macedonian: шинтои́зам m (šintoízam)
• Malay: Syinto
• Malayalam: ഷിന്റൊ (ṣinṟo)
• Persian: شینتو‎ (fa) (šinto)
• Polish: shinto (pl), szinto (pl), sinto, shintoizm (pl) m, sintoizm m, szintoizm m, szyntoizm m
• Portuguese: xintoísmo (pt) m
• Romanian: șintoism (ro) n
• Russian: синтои́зм (ru) m (sintoízm)
• Samogitian: šintoėzmos
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шинтоизам m

  Roman: šintoizam (sh) m

• Sicilian: shintuismu
• Slovak: šintoizmus m
• Slovene: šintoizem (sl) m
• Spanish: sintoísmo (es) m
• Swedish: shintoism (sv), shinto (sv)
• Tamil: சின்த்தோ (ciṉttō)
• Telugu: షింటోయిజం (te) (ṣiṇṭōyijaṁ)
• Thai: ชินโต (chin-dtoh)
• Turkish: şinto (tr)
• Ukrainian: синтої́зм (uk) m (syntojízm)
• Vietnamese: Thần đạo

Adjective

Shinto (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to, Shintoism.

Anagrams

• Histon, hits on, no shit, shit on, tonish

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 神道 (shintō), from Middle Chinese 神道 (MC ʑiɪn dɑu^X, “ways of the gods”), ultimately from Old Chinese 神道 (OC *hlin l'uːʔ, “ways [doings] of Heaven [in matters of fortune or fate]”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃin.to/
• Hyphenation: shin‧to

Noun

Shinto (first-person possessive Shintoku, second-person possessive Shintomu, third-person possessive Shintonya)

1. Shinto (formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits in Japan)

Further reading

• “Shinto” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.