"Tsukuyomi" meaning in English

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Proper name

Rhymes: -əʊmi Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 月読 (つくよみ, Tsukuyomi), originally a compound of 月 (つく, tsuku, “the moon”) + 読み (よみ, yomi, “reading”, ancient meaning of “counting”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ja|月読|tr=つくよみ, Tsukuyomi}} Japanese 月読 (つくよみ, Tsukuyomi), {{af|ja|月|読み|nocat=1|pos2=ancient meaning of “counting”|t1=the moon|t2=reading|tr1=つく, tsuku|tr2=よみ, yomi}} 月 (つく, tsuku, “the moon”) + 読み (よみ, yomi, “reading”, ancient meaning of “counting”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Tsukuyomi
  1. (Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese moon god, son of Izanami and Izanagi and brother of Amaterasu, Susanoo, Ōyamatsumi and Kagutsuchi. Wikipedia link: Tsukuyomi Tags: Japanese Categories (topical): Japanese deities, Shinto Synonyms: Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto Coordinate_terms: Amaterasu, Ame-no-Uzume, Izanagi, Izanami, Kagutsuchi, Ōyamatsumi, Susanoo Translations (Japanese moon god): تْسُوكُويُومِي (tsūkūyūmī) [masculine] (Arabic), 月讀 (Chinese Mandarin), 月读 (Yuèdú) (Chinese Mandarin), Cukujomi (Esperanto), Τσουκουγιόμι (Tsoukougiómi) [masculine] (Greek), Τσουκιγιόμι (Tsoukigiómi) [masculine] (Greek), त्सुकुयोमी (tsukuyomī) (Hindi), Cukujomi (Hungarian), 月読 (Japanese), 月読み (Japanese), 月夜見 (alt: つくよみ, Tsukuyomi; つきよみ, Tsukiyomi) (Japanese), 쓰쿠요미 (Sseukuyomi) (Korean), 쓰쿠요미노 미코토 (Sseukuyomino mikoto) (Korean), त्सुकुयोमी (tsukuyomī) (Marathi), تسوکویومی (tsukuyomi) (Persian), Цукиёми (Cukijómi) [masculine] (Russian), Цукуёми (Cukujómi) [masculine] (Russian), Cukijomi [masculine] (Slovene), சுக்குயோமி (cukkuyōmi) (Tamil), สึกุโยะมิ (sʉ̀-gù-yó-mí) (Thai), Цукуйо́мі (Cukujómi) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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.