Nagasaki

• (obsolete, reflecting historical pronunciation) Nangasaki, Nangasacq
• (in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift) Nangasac

Borrowed from Japanese 長崎(ながさき) (Nagasaki).

Nagasaki

1. A port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan, famous as the country's early modern entrepot and for its nuclear bombing on 9 August 1945 at the end of World War II.
   • 2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures:

     VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

2. A prefecture of Japan.

• (prefectures of Japan) Japan; Aichi, Akita, Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gunma, Hiroshima, Hokkaidō, Hyōgo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kōchi, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nara, Niigata, Ōita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga, Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamagata, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi

• Gianakas, nagaikas, saganaki

Borrowed from Japanese 長(なが)崎(さき) (Nagasaki).

• IPA^(key): [ˈnaɡasakɪ]
• Rhymes: -akɪ
• Hyphenation: Na‧ga‧sa‧ki

Nagasaki n (indeclinable, related adjective nagasacký)

1. Nagasaki (a prefecture of Japan)
2. Nagasaki (a port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan)

• “Nagasaki”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Nagasaki”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Nagasaki

1. Rōmaji transcription of ながさき

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 長(なが)崎(さき) (Nagasaki).

Nagasaki f

1. Alternative form of Nagasáqui

Borrowed from Japanese 長(なが)崎(さき) (Nagasaki).

• IPA^(key): [nɑɡɑsɑci]
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [nɑɡɑzɑːci]

Nagasaki

1. Nagasaki (a port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan)
2. Nagasaki (a prefecture of Japan)

• Nagasakili