shogun

See also: shōgun

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) xogun

Etymology

From Japanese 将軍 (shōgun), itself the short form of 征夷大将軍 (seii taishōgun, literally “general who overcomes the barbarians”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: shō'gŭn, IPA^(key): /ˈʃəʊɡʌn/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -əʊɡən

Noun

shogun (plural shoguns or shogun)

1. The supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan.
   • 1619: W. W. Gent (tr.), A briefe relation of the persecution lately made against the Catholike christians, in the Kingdome of Iaponia, devided into two books

     The third is the Shogun who reygneth at the preſent, and hath rayſed the perſecution (whereof this booke intreateth) againſt the Chriſtians, and he as it ſeemeth is acknowledged as Lord of all the threeſcore and ſix Kingdomes of Iaponia.

Derived terms

• shogunate
• shogunal

Translations

supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan

• Arabic: شُوغُون‎ m (šogun), شُوغُون‎ m (šūḡūn)
• Belarusian: сёгун m (sjóhun)
• Bulgarian: шо́гун m (šógun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 將軍 (zh), 将军 (zh) (jiāngjūn)

• Czech: šógun m
• Danish: shogun c
• Esperanto: ŝoguno
• Finnish: shōgun (fi)
• French: shogun (fr) m
• Georgian: სიოგუნი (sioguni)
• German: Shōgun (de) m, Shogun m
• Hebrew: שוגון‎ m (shogun)
• Hindi: शोगुन m (śogun)
• Hungarian: sógun (hu)
• Indonesian: syogun (id)
• Italian: shōgun m, siogun m

• Japanese: 将軍 (ja) (shōgun)
• Korean: 장군 (ko) (janggun), 쇼군 (syogun)
• Malay: syogun
• Marathi: शोगुन m (śogun), शोउगुन m (śougun)
• Polish: siogun (pl) m, szogun (pl) m, shogun (pl) m
• Portuguese: xogum (pt) m
• Russian: сёгу́н (ru) m (sjogún), сёгун (ru) m (sjógun)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шогун m

  Roman: šogun (sh) m

• Slovak: šógun m
• Spanish: shōgun m, sogún m
• Swedish: shogun (sv)
• Thai: โชกุน
• Turkish: şogun
• Ukrainian: сьо́ґун m (sʹógun)
• Vietnamese: shōgun

See also

• shogun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• snough

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Danish

Etymology

From Japanese 将軍 (shōgun).

Noun

shogun

1. shogun

Declension

Declension of shogun

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	shogun	shogunen	shoguner	shogunerne
genitive	shoguns	shogunens	shoguners	shogunernes

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French

Etymology

From Japanese 将軍 (shōgun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ.ɡun/

Noun

shogun m (plural shoguns)

1. shogun

Derived terms

• shogunal
• shogunat

Further reading

• “shogun”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Japanese 将軍 (shōgun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃo.ɡun/
• Hyphenation: sho‧gun

Noun

shogun (first-person possessive shogunku, second-person possessive shogunmu, third-person possessive shogunnya)

1. Nonstandard spelling of syogun.

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Italian

Alternative forms

• sciogun

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 将軍 (shōgun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈʃɔ.ɡun/, ^*/ʃoˈɡun/
• Rhymes: -ɔɡun, -un
• Hyphenation: shò‧gun, sho‧gùn

Noun

shogun m (invariable)

1. shogun

Derived terms

• shogunale
• shogunato

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Polish

Alternative forms

• siogun, szogun

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 将軍 (shōgun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕɔ.ɡun/, /ˈʂɔ.ɡun/
• Rhymes: -ɔɡun
• Syllabification: sho‧gun

Noun

shogun m pers

1. (uncommon) shogun

Declension

Declension of shogun

	singular	plural
nominative	shogun	shoguni/shogunowie
genitive	shoguna	shogunów
dative	shogunowi	shogunom
accusative	shoguna	shoguni/shogunowie
instrumental	shogunem	shogunami
locative	shogunie	shogunach
vocative	shogunie	shoguni/shogunowie

Further reading

• shogun in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• shogun in Polish dictionaries at PWN