shogun

See also: shōgun

English

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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.