"さいたま" meaning in Japanese

See さいたま in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: [sa̠ita̠ma̠] Forms: Saitama [romanization]
Etymology: From 埼玉 (Saitama, “Saitama Prefecture”). Head templates: {{ja-pos|proper}} さいたま • (Saitama)
  1. Short for さいたま市 (Saitama-shi): Saitama (the capital city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan) Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: さいたま市 (extra: (Saitama-shi): Saitama (the capital city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan)) Categories (place): Cities in Japan, Cities in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, Places in Japan, Places in Saitama Prefecture, Japan
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

soft-redirect

IPA: [sa̠ita̠ma̠]
  1. Tags: no-gloss
    Sense id: en-さいたま-ja-soft-redirect-47DEQpj8

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_text": "From 埼玉 (Saitama, “Saitama Prefecture”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Saitama",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "proper"
      },
      "expansion": "さいたま • (Saitama)",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "(Saitama-shi): Saitama (the capital city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan)",
          "word": "さいたま市"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "ja",
          "name": "Cities in Japan",
          "orig": "ja:Cities in Japan",
          "parents": [
            "Cities",
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "ja",
          "name": "Cities in Saitama Prefecture, Japan",
          "orig": "ja:Cities in Saitama Prefecture, Japan",
          "parents": [
            "Cities",
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "ja",
          "name": "Places in Japan",
          "orig": "ja:Places in Japan",
          "parents": [
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "ja",
          "name": "Places in Saitama Prefecture, Japan",
          "orig": "ja:Places in Saitama Prefecture, Japan",
          "parents": [
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ja",
          "name": "Prefectural capitals of Japan",
          "orig": "ja:Prefectural capitals of Japan",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ja",
          "name": "Saitama",
          "orig": "ja:Saitama",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Short for さいたま市 (Saitama-shi): Saitama (the capital city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan)"
      ],
      "id": "en-さいたま-ja-name--f1Fv5lq",
      "links": [
        [
          "さいたま市",
          "さいたま市#Japanese"
        ],
        [
          "Saitama",
          "Saitama#English"
        ],
        [
          "capital city",
          "capital city"
        ],
        [
          "Japan",
          "Japan#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "さいたま"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[sa̠ita̠ma̠]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Saitama Prefecture"
  ],
  "word": "さいたま"
}

{
  "categories": [],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "soft-redirect",
  "redirects": [
    "埼玉"
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "id": "en-さいたま-ja-soft-redirect-47DEQpj8",
      "tags": [
        "no-gloss"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "さいたま"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[sa̠ita̠ma̠]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "さいたま"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese hiragana",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese proper nouns",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_text": "From 埼玉 (Saitama, “Saitama Prefecture”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Saitama",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "proper"
      },
      "expansion": "さいたま • (Saitama)",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "(Saitama-shi): Saitama (the capital city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan)",
          "word": "さいたま市"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Japanese short forms",
        "ja:Cities in Japan",
        "ja:Cities in Saitama Prefecture, Japan",
        "ja:Places in Japan",
        "ja:Places in Saitama Prefecture, Japan",
        "ja:Prefectural capitals of Japan",
        "ja:Saitama"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Short for さいたま市 (Saitama-shi): Saitama (the capital city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "さいたま市",
          "さいたま市#Japanese"
        ],
        [
          "Saitama",
          "Saitama#English"
        ],
        [
          "capital city",
          "capital city"
        ],
        [
          "Japan",
          "Japan#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "さいたま"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[sa̠ita̠ma̠]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Saitama Prefecture"
  ],
  "word": "さいたま"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "soft-redirect",
  "redirects": [
    "埼玉"
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "no-gloss"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "さいたま"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[sa̠ita̠ma̠]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "さいたま"
}

Download raw JSONL data for さいたま meaning in Japanese (1.7kB)

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "さいたま"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "proper noun",
  "title": "さいたま",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "luaexec/683",
  "msg": "LUA error in #invoke('form of/templates', 'form_of_t', 'short for', 'cat=short forms', 'withcap=1', 'withdot=1') parent ('Template:short for', {1: 'ja', 2: '埼玉県', 'tr': 'Saitama-ken', 'dot': ':'})",
  "path": [
    "さいたま",
    "Template:ja-see",
    "#invoke",
    "#invoke",
    "Lua:Module:ja-see:show()",
    "frame:preprocess()",
    "Template:short for",
    "Template:no deprecated lang param usage",
    "ARGVAL-1",
    "#invoke",
    "#invoke"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "さいたま",
  "trace": "[string \"Module:form of/templates\"]:555: attempt to call upvalue 'get_force_cat' (a nil value)"
}

{
  "called_from": "luaexec/683",
  "msg": "LUA error in #invoke('form of/templates', 'form_of_t', '\\U0010209c spelling of', 'withcap=1', 'ignore=from:list') parent ('Template:alternative spelling of', {1: 'ja', 2: 'さいたま', 'tr': 'Saitama'})",
  "path": [
    "さいたま",
    "Template:ja-see",
    "#invoke",
    "#invoke",
    "Lua:Module:ja-see:show()",
    "frame:preprocess()",
    "Template:alt sp",
    "Template:no deprecated lang param usage",
    "ARGVAL-1",
    "#invoke",
    "#invoke"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "さいたま",
  "trace": "[string \"Module:form of/templates\"]:555: attempt to call upvalue 'get_force_cat' (a nil value)"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). 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.