tsunami
Swahili
noun
Definitions
- tsunamitsunami
Etymology
Borrowed from English tsunami borrowed from Japanese 津波 (tsunami, tidal wave, seismic sea wave, harbour wave, tidal bore).
Origin
Japanese
津波
Gloss
tsunami, tidal wave, seismic sea wave, harbour wave, tidal bore
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
- 山津波 Japanese
- 波 Japanese
- 津 Japanese
- 津波 Japanese
- 津波警報 Japanese
- tsunami Polish
- tsunami Norwegian Nynorsk
- tsunami Danish
- cunami Serbo-Croatian
- цунами Serbo-Croatian
- सुनामी Hindi
- สึนามิ Thai
- tsunami Cebuano
- tsunami Indonesian
- цунами Bulgarian
- צונמי Hebrew (modern)
- cunami Slovak