"Shikoku" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /ʃɪˈkəʊkuː/
Etymology: From 四国 (しこく, Shikoku, “four provinces”), from Middle Chinese 四 (sìj, “four”) + 國 (kwok, “state”, “country”). (dog): < Japanese 四国犬 (shikoku-inu, “Shikoku dog”), named after the island where they originated. Etymology templates: {{lang|ja|しこく}} しこく, {{uder|en|ltc|-}} Middle Chinese, {{com|ltc|四|國|nocat=1|t1=four|t2=state”, “country|tr1=sìj|tr2=kwok}} 四 (sìj, “four”) + 國 (kwok, “state”, “country”), {{sense|dog}} (dog):, {{uder|en|ja|四国犬||Shikoku dog|tr=shikoku-inu}} Japanese 四国犬 (shikoku-inu, “Shikoku dog”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Shikoku
  1. The fourth-largest of Japan's islands. Categories (place): Islands, Japan Categories (lifeform): Dogs Coordinate_terms: Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu Translations (Japanese island): شِيكُوكُو (šikūkū) [masculine] (Arabic), Սիկոկու (Sikoku) (Armenian), 四國 (Chinese Mandarin), 四国 (Sìguó) (Chinese Mandarin), שיקוקו (Hebrew), शिकोकू (śikokū) (Hindi), 四国 (alt: しこく) [Shikoku] (Japanese), 시코쿠 (Sikoku) (Korean), Šikoku (Lithuanian), Шико́ку (Šikóku) [neuter] (Macedonian), शिकोकु (śikoku) (Marathi), Сико́ку (Sikóku) [masculine] (Russian), ชิโกกุ (chí-goo-gù) (Thai), Shikoku (Turkish), Şikoku (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-Shikoku-en-name-NSq2RHaR Disambiguation of Islands: 95 5 Disambiguation of Japan: 92 8 Disambiguation of Dogs: 79 21 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations, Middle Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 12 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 93 7 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 92 8 Disambiguation of Middle Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 97 3

Noun

IPA: /ʃɪˈkəʊkuː/ Forms: Shikoku [plural]
Etymology: From 四国 (しこく, Shikoku, “four provinces”), from Middle Chinese 四 (sìj, “four”) + 國 (kwok, “state”, “country”). (dog): < Japanese 四国犬 (shikoku-inu, “Shikoku dog”), named after the island where they originated. Etymology templates: {{lang|ja|しこく}} しこく, {{uder|en|ltc|-}} Middle Chinese, {{com|ltc|四|國|nocat=1|t1=four|t2=state”, “country|tr1=sìj|tr2=kwok}} 四 (sìj, “four”) + 國 (kwok, “state”, “country”), {{sense|dog}} (dog):, {{uder|en|ja|四国犬||Shikoku dog|tr=shikoku-inu}} Japanese 四国犬 (shikoku-inu, “Shikoku dog”) Head templates: {{en-noun|Shikoku}} Shikoku (plural Shikoku)
  1. A dog of a particular breed of Japanese origin. Translations (dog): shikoku (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-Shikoku-en-noun-mxEPVLwD

Alternative 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.