shogun

See also: shōgun

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • enPR: shō'gŭn, IPA(key): /ˈʃəʊɡʌn/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊɡən

Noun

shogun (plural shoguns or shogun)

  1. The supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan.
    • 1619, W. W. Gent, transl., 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

Translations

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Anagrams

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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 将軍 (shōgun).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃɔ.ɡun/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

shogun m (plural shoguns)

  1. shogun

Derived terms

Further reading

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.

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 将軍 (shōgun).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): */ˈʃɔ.ɡun/, */ʃoˈɡun/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔɡun, -un
  • Hyphenation: shò‧gun, sho‧gùn

Noun

shogun m (invariable)

  1. shogun

Derived terms

References
  1. shogun in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Polish

Alternative forms

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 Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French shogoun.

Noun

shogun m (plural shoguni)

  1. shogun

Declension
Declension of shogun
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) shogun shogunul (niște) shoguni shogunii
genitive/dative (unui) shogun shogunului (unor) shoguni shogunilor
vocative shogunule shogunilor

References
  • shogun in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Swedish

Noun

shogun c

  1. a shogun

Declension
Declension of shogun 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative shogun shogunen shoguner shogunerna
Genitive shoguns shogunens shoguners shogunernas

References
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