anime

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), itself borrowed from English animation, from Latin animātiō, from animāre.

• animé

• (Western) enPR: ănĭmā, IPA^(key): /ˈæn.ɪ.meɪ/

  • Audio (US):

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ənɪˈmeː/

anime (countable and uncountable, plural anime or animes)

1. (uncountable) An artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries.

   I can draw an anime version of you, if you want.

2. (countable) An animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style.
   • 1998, “One Week”, performed by Barenaked Ladies:

     Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon / 'Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes / That make me think the wrong thing

   • 2005, Peter J. Katzenstein, A World of Regions, page 165:

     After three months of successful sales in manga form, it was made into an anime for television.

   • 2005, Joan D. Vinge, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, page cix:

     Usually the manga comes first, though it may be an offshoot of a novel, and an anime may be inspired by a video game.

   • 2006, Thomas LaMarre, edited by Tomiko Yoda and Harry D. Harootunian, Japan After Japan, page 363:

     These anime prepared the way for Otaku no video, a two-part Original Video Animation (OVA).

3. (rare, countable, chiefly proscribed) An animated work, regardless of the country of origin.

• (a Japanese animated work): Japanimation (dated), Japanime (dated)

• (a Japanese animated work): cartoon, animation

• (a Japanese animated work): manga (a Japanese graphic illustration work)
• (a Chinese animated work): dònghuà

Borrowed from French animé (“animated”) (from the insects that are entrapped in it); or native name.

anime (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of animé (“the resin of the courbaril”).

• Maine, minæ, minae, maine, I mean, amine, -amine, manie, Emina

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

• IPA^(key): /aˈɲi.mɛ/

anime (plural anime)

1. anime (Japanese animation)

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

• IPA^(key): /anime/ [a.ni.me]
• Rhymes: -ime, -e
• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧me

anime inan

1. anime
   • 2009 December 27, Elena Senao, “Japoniarren bi aurpegiak”, in Argia, number 2212:

     Beste batzuk, berriz, animeetako marrazkien antzera janzten dira; Alizia herrialde miresgarrian ipuinetik ateratakoak ematen du zenbaitek.

     Others, however, disguise themselves in the style of anime cartoons; some look like characters from the tale Alice in Wonderland.

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

anime

1. anime

• animefigur

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.ni.meː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ani‧me

anime m (plural anime's, diminutive animeetje n)

1. (uncountable) anime
2. (countable) an anime

animo +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /aˈnime/
• Rhymes: -ime
• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧me

anime

1. in one’s soul; spiritually
   • (Can we date this quote?) Lydia Zamenhof (translator), Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Part 1, Chapter 26,

     ŝi sentis, ke tiu nefleksebla kaj danĝera homo apartenas nun al ŝi anime kaj korpe, kiel sklavo

     she felt that that unbending and dangerous man belonged to her now, soul and body, like a slave (Jeremiah Curtin translation)

2. in one’s mind; mentally, psychologically
   • (Can we date this quote?) Jurij Finkel (translator), La Horo de Bovo (Час Быка / The Bull’s Hour) by Ivan Yefremov, Chapter 7,

     Kiom da trompoj ankoraŭ atendas ĉi tie, precipe inter homoj, tute similaj al la teraj kaj tiom malsamaj anime!

     How many misapprehensions were still in store here, especially among people [who] looked just like Terrans but whose minds were so unlike theirs (lit. so different mentally)!

   • (Can we date this quote?) István Nemere, “Tunelo helnigra,” review of La tunelo by Marco Picasso, in Literatura Foiro 176, December 1998,

     Certe estas tiaj situacioj en la vivo de ni ĉiuj. Kaj en la romano mi trovis lokojn, kie mi ekkriis anime: “Jen, tion ankaŭ mi verkus samtiel!”

     There are certainly situations like that in all of our lives. And in the novel I found places, where in my head I would exclaim: “That’s just how I would have written it, too!”

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑnime/, [ˈɑ̝nime̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑnime
• Syllabification^(key): a‧ni‧me
• Hyphenation^(key): ani‧me

anime

1. anime

• “anime”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• Maine, Minea, Naemi, maine

• IPA^(key): /a.nim/

• Audio:

  (file)

anime

1. inflection of animer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• en ami, Maine, manie, manié, menai

• ànime

From Latin anima (“breath, soul”) (cf. Italian alma, Romansch olma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ni.me/

anime f (plural animis)

1. soul

• animâ
• nemâl

From English anime, from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒnimɛ]
• Hyphenation: ani‧me
• Rhymes: -mɛ

anime (plural animék)

1. anime (artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation)
2. anime (animated work originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style)

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), itself borrowed from English animation. Doublet of aeni and animasi.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aˈnime/ [aˈni.me]
• Rhymes: -ime
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧me

animé

1. anime (an animation originating from Japan, regardless of its style)
2. anime (an artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation)

   Hypernym: animasi

• “anime” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ni.me/
• Rhymes: -anime
• Hyphenation: à‧ni‧me

anime f pl

1. plural of anima

• Maine, ameni, emani, emina, manie, menai

anime

1. Rōmaji transcription of アニメ

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.nɪ.mɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.ni.me]

anime m

1. vocative singular of animus

Borrowed from English anime, from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), itself borrowed from English animation, from Latin animātiō, from animāre. Doublet of animasi.

• (English-based) IPA^(key): [ɛ.ni.me]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

    (file)

• (spelling-based) IPA^(key): [a.ni.me]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -me, -e
• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧me

anime (Jawi spelling انيمي, plural anime-anime)

1. Anime:
   1. An artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries.

      Gaya lukisan yang popular kebelakangan ini ialah gaya anime.

      A drawing style that has been popular recently is the anime style.

   2. An animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style.

      Anime ini merupakan hasil kerja Studio Ghibli.

      This anime is a product of the work of Studio Ghibli.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːˌni.me/

ānime

1. inflection of āniman:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ. First attested in 1997.

• IPA^(key): /aˈɲi.mɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -imɛ
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧me

anime n (indeclinable)

1. (animation) anime (artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries)

   Coordinate term: manga

2. (animation) anime (animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style)

   Coordinate term: manga

anime (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (animation, postpositive, relational) anime (artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries)
2. (animation, postpositive, relational) anime (animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style)

• anime I in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• anime II in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• anime in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime),^[1][2] an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧me

anime m (plural animes)

1. anime (Japanese animation)
   • 2009, Fábio Andrews Rocha Marques, O Livro Que Nós Criamos, Clube de Autores, page 81:

     Princess: Anime? O que é isso?
     Nakamura: São os desenhos animados japoneses, mas diferente do resto do mundo, são desenhos para todas as idades. Tem animes com muito sangue e batalhas de espada, mas existem animes de romance com histórias bem dramáticas também.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• animé, animê

• animação, animar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧me

anime

1. inflection of animar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

anime n (plural animeuri)

1. anime

anime

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of anima

• IPA^(key): /aˈnime/ [aˈni.me]
• Rhymes: -ime
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧me

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

anime m (plural animes)

1. anime

• ánime

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

anime

1. inflection of animar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Medieval Latin amineus (“white”).

anime m (uncountable)

1. animé (resin)
2. (Cuba, Ecuador) courbaril (Hymenaea courbaril)
3. (Venezuela) expanded polystyrene (EPS), styrofoam

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:poliestireno expandido

• “anime”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “anime”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ via English animie

anime c

1. anime (style of animation)
2. an anime (work of anime)

• manga

• anime in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• anime in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• anime in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Borrowed from English anime (“Japanese animation”), from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), itself from English animation, from Latin animātiō.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔanime/ [ˌʔaː.n̪ɪˈmɛ]
• Rhymes: -anime
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧me

ánimé (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈᜒᜋᜒ)

1. anime (Japanese animation)