English
Etymology
Attested in the mid-20th century, borrowed from Japanese 被爆者 (hibakusha, literally “bomb-affected person”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhɪbəˌkuːʃə/, /hɪˈbɑːkʊʃə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌhibəˈkuʃə/
- Rhymes: -uːʃə
Noun
hibakusha (plural hibakushas or hibakusha)
- A survivor of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
2021 August 6, Mari Yamaguchi, “Hiroshima marks 76th anniversary of US atomic bombing”, in AP News[1]:The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons took effect in January after years of civil effort joined by atomic bombing survivors, or hibakusha.
Translations
survivor of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Bengali: হিবাকুশা (hibakuśa)
- Bulgarian: хибакуша m or f (hibakuša)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 被爆者 (zh) (bèibàozhě)
- Czech: hibakuša m or f
- Esperanto: hibakuŝo
- Finnish: hibakusha
- French: hibakusha (fr) m or f
- German: Hibakusha m or f
- Hebrew: הִיבָּקוּשָׁה m or f (hibakusha)
- Italian: hibakusha m or f
- Japanese: 被爆者 (ja) (hibakusha)
- Korean: 피폭자(被爆者) (pipokja)
- Malayalam: ഹിബാകുഷ (hibākuṣa)
- Mongolian: хибакуша (xibakuša)
- Portuguese: hibakusha m or f
- Punjabi: ਹਿਬਾਕੁਸ਼ਾ m or f (hibākuśā)
- Russian: хиба́куся (ru) m or f (xibákusja)
- Slovak: hibakuša m or f
- Ukrainian: хіба́куся m or f (xibákusja)
- Urdu: ہیباکوشا m or f (hībākūshā)
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Japanese
Romanization
hibakusha
- Rōmaji transcription of ひばくしゃ
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 被爆者 (hibakusha, literally “bomb-affected person”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁi.baˈku.ʃɐ/ [hi.baˈku.ʃɐ]
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁi.baˈku.ʃɐ/ [hi.baˈku.ʃɐ]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ʁi.baˈku.ʃɐ/ [χi.baˈku.ʃɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁi.baˈku.ʃa/ [hi.baˈku.ʃa]
Noun
hibakusha m or f by sense (plural hibakushas)
- hibakusha (survivor of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
2017, “A “Associação Hibakusha Brasil pela Paz” e os sobreviventes de Hiroshima e Nagasaki no Brasil”, in Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações[2]: