shogun
See also: shōgun
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- (obsolete) xogun
EtymologyEdit
From Japanese 将軍 (shōgun), itself the short form of 征夷大将軍 (seii taishōgun, literally “general who overcomes the barbarians”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
shogun (plural shoguns or shogun)
- 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.
- 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
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan
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AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
shogun
- shogun
DeclensionEdit
Declension of shogun
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | shogun | shogunen | shoguner | shogunerne |
genitive | shoguns | shogunens | shoguners | shogunernes |
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
shogun m (plural shoguns)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “shogun”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
IndonesianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
shogun (first-person possessive shogunku, second-person possessive shogunmu, third-person possessive shogunnya)
- Nonstandard spelling of syogun.
ItalianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Japanese 将軍 (shōgun).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
shogun m (invariable)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ shogun in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
PolishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Japanese 将軍 (shōgun).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
shogun m pers
- (uncommon) shogun
DeclensionEdit
Declension of shogun