shogun

See also: shōgun

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

shogun

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• shōgun
• (obsolete) xogun

Etymology

From Japanese 将軍 (shōgun), itself the short form of 征夷大将軍 (seii taishōgun, literally “general who overcomes the barbarians”), ultimately from Middle Chinese. Doublet of jiangjun.

Pronunciation

• enPR: shō'gŭn, IPA^(key): /ˈʃəʊɡʌn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊɡən

Noun

shogun (plural shoguns or shogun)

1. The supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan.
   • 1619, W. W. Gent, transl., A briefe relation of the persecution lately made against the Catholike christians, in the Kingdome of Iaponia, devided into two books:

     The third is the Shogun who reygneth at the preſent, and hath rayſed the perſecution (whereof this booke intreateth) againſt the Chriſtians, and he as it ſeemeth is acknowledged as Lord of all the threeſcore and ſix Kingdomes of Iaponia.

Derived terms

• shogunate
• shogunal

Translations

supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan

Arabic: شُوغُون m (šogun), شُوغُون m (šūḡūn) Azerbaijani: şoqun South Azerbaijani: شڭون Belarusian: сёгун m (sjóhun) Bulgarian: шо́гун m (šógun) Chinese: Mandarin: 將軍 / 将军 (zh) (jiāngjūn) Czech: šógun m Danish: shogun c Esperanto: ŝoguno Finnish: shōgun (fi) French: shogun (fr) m Georgian: სიოგუნი (sioguni) German: Feldherr (de) m; Schogun m, Shogun m, Shōgun (de) m Hebrew: שוגון m (shogun) Hindi: शोगुन m (śogun) Hungarian: sógun (hu) Indonesian: syogun (id) Italian: shōgun m, siogun m Japanese: 将軍 (ja) (shōgun) Korean: 장군 (ko) (janggun), 쇼군 (syogun) Malay: syogun Marathi: शोगुन m (śogun), शोउगुन m (śougun) Old Turkic: 𐰽𐰭𐰆𐰣 (s¹ŋun¹), 𐱁𐰭𐰆𐰣 (šŋun¹) Polish: siogun (pl) m, szogun (pl) m, shogun (pl) m Portuguese: xogum (pt) m Russian: сёгу́н (ru) m (sjogún), сёгун (ru) m (sjógun) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: шогун m Roman: šogun (sh) m Slovak: šógun m Spanish: shōgun m, sogún m Swedish: shogun (sv) Thai: โชกุน Turkish: şogun Ukrainian: сьо́ґун m (sʹógun) Vietnamese: shōgun

See also

• shogun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• snough

Danish

Etymology

From Japanese 将軍 (shōgun).

Noun

shogun

1. shogun

Declension

Declension of shogun

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	shogun	shogunen	shoguner	shogunerne
genitive	shoguns	shogunens	shoguners	shogunernes

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

shogun

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 将軍 (shōgun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ.ɡun/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

shogun m (plural shoguns)

1. shogun

Derived terms

• shogunal
• shogunat

Further reading

• “shogun”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

shogun

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

From Japanese 将軍 (shōgun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃo.ɡun/
• Hyphenation: sho‧gun

Noun

shogun (plural shogun-shogun)

1. Nonstandard spelling of syogun.

Italian

Alternative forms

• sciogun (obsolete)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 将軍 (shōgun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈʃɔ.ɡun/, ^*/ʃoˈɡun/^[1]
• Rhymes: -un
• Hyphenation: shò‧gun, sho‧gùn

Noun

shogun m (invariable)

1. shogun

Derived terms

• shogunale
• shogunato

References

1. shogun in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shogun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʂɔ.ɡun/, /ˈɕɔ.ɡun/
• Rhymes: -ɔɡun
• Syllabification: sho‧gun

Noun

shogun m pers

1. (uncommon, historical, military) Alternative spelling of szogun

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	shogun	shoguni/shogunowie/shoguny (deprecative)
genitive	shoguna	shogunów
dative	shogunowi	shogunom
accusative	shoguna	shogunów
instrumental	shogunem	shogunami
locative	shogunie	shogunach
vocative	shogunie	shoguni/shogunowie/shoguny (deprecative)

Declension of shogun

Related terms

(nouns):

• shogunat

Further reading

• shogun in PWN's encyclopedia
• shogun in the Korpus Języka Polskiego PWN [PWN Corpus of the Polish Language]

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French shogoun.

Noun

shogun m (plural shoguni)

1. shogun

Declension

Declension of shogun

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	shogun	shogunul		shoguni	shogunii
genitive-dative	shogun	shogunului		shoguni	shogunilor
vocative	shogunule			shogunilor

References

• shogun in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

shogun

Wikipedia ^sv

Noun

shogun c

1. a shogun

Declension

Declension of shogun

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	shogun	shoguns
	definite	shogunen	shogunens
plural	indefinite	shoguner	shoguners
	definite	shogunerna	shogunernas

References

• shogun in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• shogun in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)