"isekai" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 異世界 (isekai, literally “different world”). Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|en|ja|異世界|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=different world|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=isekai|ts=}} Japanese 異世界 (isekai, literally “different world”), {{bor+|en|ja|異世界|lit=different world|tr=isekai}} Borrowed from Japanese 異世界 (isekai, literally “different world”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} isekai (uncountable)
  1. (Japanese fiction) A genre of Japanese fiction involving everyday people transported to alternate fantasy or virtual worlds. Tags: Japanese, uncountable Categories (topical): Fantasy, Genres, Japanese fiction, Literary genres, Science fiction, Speculative fiction
    Sense id: en-isekai-en-noun-06STQe4y Disambiguation of Fantasy: 90 10 Disambiguation of Genres: 91 9 Disambiguation of Japanese fiction: 91 9 Disambiguation of Literary genres: 91 9 Disambiguation of Science fiction: 91 9 Disambiguation of Speculative fiction: 90 10 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 57 43 Topics: fiction, literature, media, publishing

Verb [English]

Forms: isekais [present, singular, third-person], isekaiing [participle, present], isekaied [participle, past], isekaied [past], isekai'd [participle, past], isekai'd [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 異世界 (isekai, literally “different world”). Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|en|ja|異世界|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=different world|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=isekai|ts=}} Japanese 異世界 (isekai, literally “different world”), {{bor+|en|ja|異世界|lit=different world|tr=isekai}} Borrowed from Japanese 異世界 (isekai, literally “different world”) Head templates: {{en-verb|past2=isekai'd}} isekai (third-person singular simple present isekais, present participle isekaiing, simple past and past participle isekaied or isekai'd)
  1. (fandom slang, transitive) To transport (someone) into an alternate world, often by dying. Tags: slang, transitive Derived forms: reverse isekai Translations (To transport into an alternate world): ісекайнуцца (isjekajnucca) (Belarusian), исекайнуться (isekajnutʹsja) (Russian), isekai [masculine] (Spanish), ісекайнутися (isekajnutysja) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-isekai-en-verb-f~PaCA7g Topics: lifestyle

Romanization [Japanese]

Head templates: {{head|ja|romanization|head=|sc=Latn}} isekai
  1. Rōmaji transcription of いせかい Tags: Rōmaji, alt-of, romanization Alternative form of: いせかい

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.