Okinawan

//ˌɒkiːˈnɑːwən//

Synonyms for "okinawan"

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derived

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derived from

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related to

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Translations

56 translations across 40 languages.

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Arabic

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  • لُغَة أُوكِينَاوَا name (Okinawan language)

Asturian

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  • okinawense name (Okinawan language)

Bavarian German

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  • Okinawa Sproch name (Okinawan language)

Breton

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  • okinaweg name (Okinawan language)

Catalan

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  • okinawenc name (Okinawan language)

Chinese Cantonese

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  • 沖繩話 /冲绳话 name (Okinawan language)
  • 沖繩語 /冲绳语 name (Okinawan language)

Chinese Mandarin

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  • 沖繩的 /冲绳的 adj (of or related to Okinawa)
  • 沖繩語 /冲绳语 name (Okinawan language)
  • 沖繩人 /冲绳人 noun (a person from Okinawa)

Corsican

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  • okinawanu name (Okinawan language)

Dutch

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  • Okinawaans name (Okinawan language)

Esperanto

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  • okinava lingvo name (Okinawan language)

Finnish

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  • okinawalainen adj (of or related to Okinawa)
  • okinawa name (Okinawan language)
  • okinawan kieli name (Okinawan language)
  • okinawalainen noun (a person from Okinawa)

French

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  • okinawaïen name (Okinawan language)

Galician

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  • okinawano name (Okinawan language)

Hawaiian

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  • ʻŌlelo Okinawa name (Okinawan language)

Hungarian

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  • okinavai nyelv name (Okinawan language)

Indonesian

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  • Bahasa Okinawa name (Okinawan language)

Interlingua

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  • lingua okinawan name (Okinawan language)

Italian

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  • okinawano name (Okinawan language)

Japanese

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  • 沖縄の adj (of or related to Okinawa)
  • 沖縄方言 name (Okinawan language)
  • 沖縄語 name (Okinawan language)
  • 沖縄人 noun (a person from Okinawa)

Korean

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  • 오키나와의 adj (of or related to Okinawa)
  • 오키나와어 name (Okinawan language)

Lithuanian

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  • Okinavų kalba name (Okinawan language)

Malay

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  • Bahasa Okinawa name (Okinawan language)

Miyako

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  • 沖縄言 name (Okinawan language)

Occitan

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  • oquinavan name (Okinawan language)

Okinawan

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  • 沖縄ぬ adj (of or related to Okinawa)
  • 沖縄口 name (Okinawan language)
  • 沖縄ん人 noun (a person from Okinawa)

Piedmontese

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  • lenga okinawan name (Okinawan language)

Polish

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  • język okinawski name (Okinawan language)

Portuguese

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  • oquinauano name (Okinawan language)

Russian

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  • окина́вский adj (of or related to Okinawa)
  • окина́вский язы́к name (Okinawan language)
  • жи́тель Окина́вы noun (a person from Okinawa)
  • жи́тельница Окина́вы noun (a person from Okinawa)

Serbo-Croatian

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  • okìnavski jèzik name (Okinawan language)
  • окѝнавски јѐзик name (Okinawan language)

Spanish

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  • okinawense name (Okinawan language)

Swedish

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  • okinawianska name (Okinawan language)

Thai

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  • ภาษาโอกินาวะ name (Okinawan language)

Tibetan

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  • ཨོ་ཀི་ན་ལྦ་སྐད། name (Okinawan language)

Turkish

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  • Okinawaca name (Okinawan language)

Ukrainian

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  • окінавська мо́ва name (Okinawan language)

Vietnamese

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  • tiếng Okinawa name (Okinawan language)

West-Frisian

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  • Okinawaansk name (Okinawan language)

Yaeyama

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  • 沖縄物言 name (Okinawan language)

Yonaguni

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  • 沖縄物言 name (Okinawan language)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

An adventurous sort, Lester downed the whole bottle of habu sake in one show-stopping chug. Only the snake was left, securing Lester as an Okinawan national treasure.

Source: tatoeba (754841)

Thus fought the Okinawan people.

Source: tatoeba (3579799)

The Okinawan language looks like Japanese with its syllabograms and sinograms.

Source: tatoeba (10539785)

In a way, in the Philippines, people already speak Spanish and English, as these languages, or really their words, are integrated or imbedded in native languages, not just Tagalog. Spanish is chocolate or coffee, whilst English is a fizzy pink lemonade soda. The Philippine society is mostly an amalgam of Malay, Chinese, and Spanish elements, with unmentioned various more minor ones. There is Philippine Creole Spanish, Chabacano or Chavacano, spoken scatteringly in the magical archipelago. The feature of the Philippines is more like the Caribbean, the crossroads of different peoples. I can categorize the people of the Philippines in several desserts: Many are like "ube halaya" or the dark mash of sweet purple yam. Some are more like "halo-halo" or ice dessert with leche flan, ube yam, kaong, nata de coco, young coconut strips, agar-agar jelly, sago, beans, fruits like jackfruit, et cetera. Some are more like "maíz con hielo" or ice dessert with corn kernels, sugar, and milk. A striking difference of Filipinos from Mainland Asia is their love of the creative purple colour, maybe because of the ube yam delicacy. In Okinawa in Japan, people call it "beniimo." They use it also in Okinawan desserts and other cooking.

Source: tatoeba (12292478)

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