Hiroshima

From Japanese 広島.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɪ(ə)ˈɹɒʃɪmə/, /hɪ(ə)ɹəˈʃiːmə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /hɪˈɹoʊʃɪmə/, /hɪɹoʊˈʃiːmə/

Hiroshima

1. A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan.
2. The capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. It was the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.
   • 1945 August 6, Truman, Harry S., VT2008-9-2 President Truman Announces Bombing of Hiroshima‎, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 23630, 0:18 from the start:

     A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.

3. (figuratively) catastrophe.
   • 2011 April, Michael Joseph Gross, “A Declaration of Cyber-War”, Vanity Fair:

   Stuxnet is the Hiroshima of cyber-war.

4. The 1945 atomic bombing of the city of the same name.
   • 2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures:

     VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Hiroshima

1. Rōmaji transcription of ひろしま

• Hirosima
• Hiroszima

Borrowed from Japanese 広島.

• IPA^(key): /xi.rɔˈɕi.ma/, /xi.rɔˈʂi.ma/
• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: hi‧ro‧shi‧ma

Hiroshima f

1. Hiroshima (a city in Japan)

• Hiroshima in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Hiroshima in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Hiroshima f

1. Hiroshima (a prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan)
2. Hiroshima (the capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan)