Hokkaido

Hokkaido

See also: Hokkaidó and Hokkaidō

English

Satellite image of Hokkaido (sense 1) by Terra, May 2001

(sense 2)

Alternative forms

• Hokkaidō

Etymology

From Japanese 北海道 (Hokkaidō ほっかいどう, “North Sea Circuit”), from Middle Chinese 北海 (pok-hój, “Northern sea”) +‎ 道 (dáu, “Circuit”, a province-like administrative unit from Tang dynasty China).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɒˈkaɪdəʊ/, /həˈkaɪdəʊ/
• Rhymes: -aɪdəʊ

Proper noun

Hokkaido

1. The second largest island of Japan, capital Sapporo.
2. A breed of dog originating from Japan, resembling a spitz dog breed, altough not officially ranked as a spitz dog breed.

Coordinate terms

• (island): Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku

Translations

a northern largest island of Japan, or a prefecture based in itself

Afrikaans: Hokkaido Ainu: アィヌ・モシㇼ (aynu-mosir) Arabic: هُوكَايْدُو‎ m (hukaydū) Hijazi Arabic: هُكَّايْدو‎ f (hukkāydu) Armenian: Հոկայդո (Hokaydo) Azerbaijani: Hokkaydo Bashkir: Хокка́йдо (Xokkáydo) Belarusian: Хака́йда (Xakájda) Bulgarian: Хока́йдо (Hokájdo) Catalan: Hokkaidō Chinese: Cantonese: 北海道 (bak1hoi2dou6) Mandarin: 北海道 (zh) (Běihǎidào) Min Dong: 北海道 (Báe̤k-hāi-dô̤) Wu: 北海道 Czech: Hokkaidó (cs) Danish: Hokkaido Dutch: Hokkaido Esperanto: Hokajdo Farefare: Hokkaidoo Finnish: Hokkaido (fi), Hokkaidō French: Hokkaido (fr), Hokkaïdo (fr) Galician: Hokkaido Georgian: ჰოკაიდო (hoḳaido) German: Hokkaido (de), Hokkaidō Greek: Χοκκάιντο (el) (Chokkáinto) Hebrew: הוקאידו‎ Hindi: होक्काइडो (hokkāiḍo) Hungarian: Hokkaidó Icelandic: Hokkaidō Indonesian: Hokkaido Italian: Hokkaido (it), Hokkaidō Japanese: 北海道 (ja) (ほっかいどう, Hokkaidō) Korean: 홋카이도 (ko) (Hotkaido), 북해도(北海道) (ko) (Bukhaedo) Lao: ຮົກໄກໂດ (hok kai dō) Lithuanian: Hokaidas Macedonian: Хокаи́до n (Hokaído) Malay: Hokkaido, Hokkaidō Marathi: होक्काइदो m (hokkāido) Norwegian: Hokkaido Norwegian Nynorsk: Hokkaido Persian: هوکایدو‎ Polish: Hokkaido (pl) Portuguese: Hokkaido (pt) Romanian: Hokkaido Russian: Хокка́йдо (ru) m (Xokkájdo) Samogitian: Huokaids Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Хокаидо, Хоккаидо Roman: Hokaido, Hokkaido Slovak: Hokkaidó Slovene: Hokaido Spanish: Hokkaido, Hokkaidō Swedish: Hokkaido Tagalog: Hokkaido, Hokkaidō Tamil: ஹொக்கைடோ (hokkaiṭō) Thai: จังหวัดฮกไกโด (jangwàt hókgaidoh) Tibetan: ཧོ་ཁའི་དོ (ho kha'i do) Turkish: Hokkaido Ukrainian: Хокка́йдо (uk) m (Xokkájdo) Urdu: ہوکائیدو‎ (hokkāīdo) Uyghur: خوككايدو ئارىلى‎ (xokkaydo arili) Vietnamese: Hokkaido, Hokkaidō, Đảo Hokkaido, Đảo Hokkaidō Yiddish: האָקײַדאָ‎ (hokaydo)

Further reading

• Hokkaido on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hokkaido (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese 北海道.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhokːɑi̯do/, [ˈho̞kːɑi̯do̞]
• Rhymes: -okːɑido
• Syllabification^(key): Hok‧kai‧do

Proper noun

Hokkaido

1. Hokkaido (island or province)

Declension

Inflection of Hokkaido (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		Hokkaido	—
genitive		Hokkaidon	—
partitive		Hokkaidoa	—
illative		Hokkaidoon	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Hokkaido	—
accusative	nom.	Hokkaido	—
	gen.	Hokkaidon
genitive		Hokkaidon	—
partitive		Hokkaidoa	—
inessive		Hokkaidossa	—
elative		Hokkaidosta	—
illative		Hokkaidoon	—
adessive		Hokkaidolla	—
ablative		Hokkaidolta	—
allative		Hokkaidolle	—
essive		Hokkaidona	—
translative		Hokkaidoksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Hokkaidotta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Hokkaido (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Hokkaidoni	Hokkaidomme
2nd person	Hokkaidosi	Hokkaidonne
3rd person	Hokkaidonsa

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Hokkaido f

1. Hokkaido (an island and prefecture in northern Japan)