Godzilla

Godzilla

See also: Godzillą

English

Alternative forms

• Godzirra (evoking a Japanese accent)

Etymology

From Japanese ゴジラ (Gojira), blend created for the movie from the words ゴリラ (gorira, “gorilla”) and 鯨 (kujira, “whale”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɑdˈzɪlə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɒdˈzɪlə/
• Rhymes: -ɪlə

Proper noun

Godzilla

1. A fictional Japanese monster (kaiju) from a series of science-fiction films.
   • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?

Translations

Japanese science-fiction monster

Arabic: غُودْزِيلَا‎ m (ḡūdzīlā), غُدْزِيلَا‎ m (ḡudzīlā) Armenian: Գոձիլա (Gojila) Azerbaijani: Qodzilla Bulgarian: Годзила m (Godzila) Chinese: Cantonese: 哥斯拉 (go1 si1 laai1) Mandarin: 哥斯拉 (zh) (Gēsīlā) Esperanto: Godzilo (eo) Finnish: Godzilla French: Godzilla (fr) m German: Godzilla m Greek: Γκοντζίλα m (Gkontzíla), Γκοτζίλα m (Gkotzíla) Hebrew: גוֹדְזִילָה‎ m (Godzíla) Hindi: गोडज़िला m (goḍzilā), गोडजिला m (goḍjilā), गोगोला m (gogolā) (uncommon) Italian: Godzilla m Japanese: ゴジラ (Gojira) Kannada: please add this translation if you can Korean: 고지라 (Gojira), 고질라 (Gojilla) Malayalam: ഗോഡ്സില്ല (gōḍsilla) Persian: گودزیلا‎ (godzilâ) Polish: Godzilla (pl) m Portuguese: Godzilla m Romanian: Godzilla f Russian: Годзи́лла (ru) m (Godzílla) Tamil: காட்சில்லா (kāṭcillā) Thai: ก็อตซิลลา (gɔ̀t-sil-laa), ก็อตซิลล่า (gɔ̀t-sil-lâa) Ukrainian: Ґодзі́лла m (Godzílla) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Noun

Godzilla (plural Godzillas)

1. (figuratively) Anything that is an extremely large or dramatic example of its type.

   a Godzilla of a tower building

   • 2009, P. J. O'Rourke, Peace Kills‎, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

     Aren't we supposed to be a big, terrifying country, a Godzilla of capitalism wrecking the globe?

Derived terms

• godzillion
• -zilla

Further reading

• Godzilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Polish

Godzilla

Etymology

Borrowed from English Godzilla, from Japanese ゴジラ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔˈd͡ʑil.la/

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• Rhymes: -illa
• Syllabification: Go‧dzil‧la

Proper noun

Godzilla m anim

1. Godzilla

Declension

Declension of Godzilla

	singular
nominative	Godzilla
genitive	Godzilli
dative	Godzilli
accusative	Godzillę
instrumental	Godzillą
locative	Godzilli
vocative	Godzillo

Further reading

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