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Okinawa

Okinawa

English

Proper noun

Okinawa

A group of islands known as the Okinawa Islands
The main island in the Okinawa Islands; Okinawa Island, where the biggest urban settlement is the city of Naha
The southern-most prefecture of Japan
A city in the Okinawa prefecture

Derived terms

Battle of Okinawa

Translations

prefecture

Ainu:
Southern Amami-Oshima:
Arabic: أُوكِينَاوَا f ‎(ʾukināwā)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 沖繩, 冲绳 ‎(cung¹sing⁴)

Mandarin: 沖繩 (zh), 冲绳 (zh) ‎(Chōngshéng)
Cia-Cia:
Czech: Okinawa f
Dzongkha:
Finnish: Okinawa
Hawaiian: ʻOkinawa
Hebrew:
Japanese: 沖縄 (ja) ‎(おきなわ, Okinawa)

Korean: 오키나와 ‎(Okinawa)
Lithuanian: Okinava (lt) f
Kunigami:
Maori:
Marathi: ओकिनावा ‎(okināvā)
Miyako:
Okinawan: 沖縄 ‎(うちなー, uchinaa)
Portuguese: Okinawa (pt) f
Russian: Окина́ва (ru) f ‎(Okináva)
Samogitian: Okinava f
Slovak: Okinava f
Tibetan: ཨོ་ཀི་ན་ལྦ། ‎(o ki na lba)
Yaeyama
Yonaguni:

city

Ainu:
Arabic: أُوكِينَاوَا f ‎(ʾukināwā)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 沖繩, 冲绳 ‎(cung¹sing⁴)

Mandarin: 沖繩 (zh), 冲绳 (zh) ‎(Chōngshéng)
Czech: Okinawa f

Finnish: Okinawa
Japanese: 沖縄市 ‎(おきなわし, Okinawa-shi)
Korean: 오키나와 ‎(Okinawa)
Marathi: ओकिनावा ‎(okināvā)
Okinawan:
Portuguese: Okinawa (pt) f
Russian: Окина́ва (ru) f ‎(Okináva)

Japanese

Romanization

Okinawa

rōmaji reading of おきなわ

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Oquinaua (rare)

Proper noun

Okinawa f

Okinawa (an island, city and prefecture of Japan)