tsunami
Cebuano
noun
Definitions
- a tsunami; a very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption
Etymology
Derived from English tsunami derived from Japanese 津波 (tsunami, tidal wave, seismic sea wave, harbour wave, tidal bore), 津 (harbor, outlet, cove, inlet, port) + Japanese 波 (wave).
Origin
Japanese
波
Gloss
wave
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
波
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- megatsunami English
- palaeotsunami English
- paleotsunami English
- teletsunami English
- tsunameter English
- tsunami English
- tsunami wall English
- tsunamic English
- tsunamigenic English
- tsunamilike English
- tsunami Finnish
- Tsunami German
- cunami Hungarian
- tsunami Dutch, Flemish
- tsunami French
- цунами Russian
- tsunami Spanish, Castilian
- tsunami Norwegian Bokmål
- tsunami Portuguese
- マイクロ波 Japanese
- 大津 Japanese
- 山津波 Japanese
- 横波 Japanese
- 波 Japanese
- 波平 Japanese
- 波束 Japanese
- 波長 Japanese
- 津 Japanese
- 津波 Japanese
- 津波警報 Japanese
- 津軽 Japanese
- 縦波 Japanese
- 電磁波 Japanese
- tsunami Polish
- tsunami Norwegian Nynorsk
- tsunami Danish
- cunami Serbo-Croatian
- цунами Serbo-Croatian
- सुनामी Hindi
- สึนามิ Thai
- tsunami Indonesian
- цунами Bulgarian
- צונמי Hebrew (modern)
- cunami Slovak
- tsunami Swahili
- なみ Old Japanese