シマ
Meanings
Noun
1. island
2. one's territory (e.g. of a sex worker, organized crime gang); one's turf
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (47 in total)
Yamato; (ancient) Japan
Japan
matchlock; arquebus; harquebus
Shimane (prefecture); (arch.) island country
Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni)
Fukushima (city, prefecture)
Arisaema urashima (species of cobra lily)
islands
Yamato (province); Japan; the art of classical Japanese poetry
Tokushima (city, prefecture)
Kurile Islands
island wind
ornament representing the Isle of Eternal Youth
Onigashima; island of ogres (in Japanese folklore)
floating island (mass of floating aquatic plants); island that appears to be floating (due to the mirage effect)
all over the island; throughout the island; on the island
exile; banishment
island chief
faint outlines of an island; vague shape of an island; silhouette of an island
brought up on an island
Shimabara Rebellion (1637-1638)
island mountain
time dilation
time dilation
Oshima tsumugi weave; type of pongee from Oshima
lee of an island; area hidden by an island
traditional Okinawan folk music
island tour
galaxy; island universe
from island to island; island-hopping
mythical island inhabited only by women; isle of women; women-only location
Takeshima problem
Rip van Winkle effect (for a woman); feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to Japan (for a woman)
island language; island dialect
chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum indicum)
mother tongue (from the island where one was raised); Okinawan neologism (developed by the language revival movement)
island constraint
Tsushima Faction (of the LDP)
Mishima cattle
small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (Awaji Island, Shōdoshima, etc.)
Nabeshima porcelains; Nabeshima ware
Okinawan pig breed
decorated flip-flops (esp. in Okinawa)
Mount Penglai; Japan
many islands
Tamatsu Island (a fictional island in the Fortune Arterial visual novel)
Examples (91 in total)
Britain is an island.
Is Australia an island?
There are islands on the sea.