Osaka

See also: Ósaka, Ōsaka, and Osaką

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Osaka

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Alternative forms

• Ōsaka

Etymology

From Japanese 大(おお)阪(さか) (Ōsaka, literally “large hill”) — the slope up to the Uemachi Plateau, where Osaka Castle sits.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əʊˈsɑːkə/, /əʊˈsækə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /oʊˈsɑːkə/, /oʊˈsækə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːkə, -ækə

Proper noun

Osaka

2. The capital city of Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
4. A prefecture on the island of Honshū, Japan.

Derived terms

• Osakan

Translations

city in Honshū, Japan

Amharic: ኦሳካ (ʾosaka) Arabic: أُوسَاكَا f (ʔūsakā) Armenian: Օսակա (Ōsaka) Bengali: ওসাকা (ōśaka) Bulgarian: О́сака (Ósaka) Burmese: အိုဆာကာ (uihcaka) Cherokee: ᎣᏌᎧ (osaka) Chinese: Cantonese: 大阪 (daai6 baan2) Hokkien: 大阪 (Tāi-pán) Mandarin: 大阪 (zh) (Dàbǎn) Czech: Ósaka f Dutch: Osaka n Esperanto: Osako Estonian: Osaka (et) Finnish: Osaka (fi) French: Osaka (fr) f, Ōsaka (fr) f Georgian: ოსაკა (osaḳa) German: Osaka (de) n Greek: Οσάκα (el) f (Osáka) Hebrew: אוֹסָקָה f (Ósaka) Hindi: ओसाका ? (osākā) Hungarian: Oszaka (hu) Indonesian: Osaka Irish: Ósaca f Italian: Osaka (it) f Japanese: 大阪 (ja) (おおさか, Ōsaka), 大阪市 (ja) (おおさかし, Ōsaka-shi) Khmer: អូសាកា (ʼousaakaa) Korean: 오사카 (ko) (Osaka), (North Korea) 오사까 (ko) (Osakka) Latin: Ōsaca (la) f Latvian: Osaka Lithuanian: Osaka Macedonian: Оса́ка f (Osáka) Marathi: ओसाका n (osākā) Nepali: ओसाका (osākā) Occitan: Osaka Persian: اوساکا (osâkâ) Polish: Osaka (pl) f Portuguese: Osaka (pt) f, (rare) Osaca (pt) f Romanian: Osaka Russian: О́сака (ru) f (Ósaka) Scots: Osaka Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Оса̀ка f Roman: Osàka (sh) f Slovak: Osaka Slovene: Osaka Spanish: Osaka (es) f Swedish: Osaka c Tagalog: please add this translation if you can Thai: โอซากะ (th) (oo-saa-gà), โอซาก้า (th) (oo-saa-gâa) Turkish: Osaka Ukrainian: О́сака (uk) f (Ósaka) Urdu: اوساکا (osākā) Vietnamese: Ōsaka, Osaka (vi) West Frisian: Osaka n

See also

prefectures of Japanedit

• 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

Anagrams

• Asako, Asoka, asoak

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

Osaka

Wikipedia ^fr

Alternative forms

• Ōsaka, Ôsaka

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 大(おお)阪(さか) (Ōsaka, literally “large hill”).

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /o.za.ka/; /o.sa.ka/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /o.sa.kɑ/

Proper noun

Osaka f

1. Osaka (the capital city of Osaka Prefecture, Japan)
2. Osaka (a prefecture on the island of Honshū, Japan)