"shuriken" meaning in English

See shuriken in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈʃuː.ɹɪ.kən/, /ˈʃʊə.ɹɪ.kən/, /ˈʃɝ.ɪ.kən/ [Canada, US, also] Forms: shurikens [plural], shuriken [plural]
enPR: sho͞or'ĭk-ən, sho͝or'ĭk-ən, shûr'ĭk-ən [Canada, US, also] Rhymes: -uːɹɪkən, -ʊəɹɪkən, -ɜːɹɪkən Etymology: From Japanese 手裏剣 (しゅりけん shuriken), from Middle Chinese 手 (ʃúw "hand") + 裏 (lí "inside") + 劍 (kjæ̀m "sword"). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|ja|手裏剣|tr=しゅりけん shuriken}} Japanese 手裏剣 (しゅりけん shuriken), {{uder|en|ltc|-}} Middle Chinese Head templates: {{en-noun|s|shuriken}} shuriken (plural shurikens or shuriken)
  1. A dart or throwing blade, sometimes with multiple points, used as a weapon by ninja (or samurai). Wikipedia link: shuriken Categories (topical): Weapons Synonyms: ninja star, throwing star Hyponyms: shaken Translations (a ninja weapon): شُورِيكِن (šūrīkin) [masculine] (Arabic), شُورِيكِين (šūrīkīn) [masculine] (Arabic), սուրիկեն (suriken) (Armenian), шурике́н (šurikén) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 手裡劍 (Chinese Mandarin), 手里剑 (shǒulǐjiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 手裏劍 (Chinese Mandarin), ŝurikeno (Esperanto), shuriken (Finnish), heittotähti (Finnish), שוריקן (shuriken) [masculine] (Hebrew), dobócsillag (Hungarian), suriken (Hungarian), shuriken (Ido), syuriken (Indonesian), 手裏剣 (shuriken) (alt: しゅりけん) (Japanese), 슈리켄 (syuriken) (Korean), 수리검 (surigeom) (Korean), शुरिकेन (śuriken) (Marathi), шүрикен (šüriken) (Mongolian), شوریکن (šuriken) (Persian), shuriken [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), сюрике́н (sjurikén) [masculine] (Russian), kaststjärna [common-gender] (Swedish), ชูริเคน (chooríkayn) (Thai), ดาวกระจาย (Thai), phi tiêu (Vietnamese), thủ lí kiếm (Vietnamese)

Inflected forms

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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "word": "dobócsillag"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "word": "suriken"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "word": "shuriken"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "word": "syuriken"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しゅりけん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shuriken",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "word": "手裏剣"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "syuriken",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "word": "슈리켄"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "surigeom",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "word": "수리검"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "śuriken",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "word": "शुरिकेन"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "šüriken",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "word": "шүрикен"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "šuriken",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "word": "شوریکن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "shuriken"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sjurikén",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сюрике́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kaststjärna"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "chooríkayn",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "word": "ชูริเคน"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "word": "ดาวกระจาย"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "word": "phi tiêu"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a ninja weapon",
      "word": "thủ lí kiếm"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shuriken"
}

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