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.

   • 2020 August 6, Brad Lendon, “Hiroshima after 75 years: Walking the path of the atomic bomb”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     This slab is where the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago were put together. It’s the assembly point for the dawning of the atomic age.

2. A prefecture of Japan.

• 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, relational 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), 2008–2025

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