kabuki
See also: Kabuki
English
WOTD – 22 December 2006
Alternative forms
- Kabuki
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 歌舞伎 (kabuki).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /kəˈbuːki/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Hyphenation: ka‧bu‧ki
- Rhymes: -uːki
Noun
kabuki (uncountable)
- (often capitalized) A form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies.
- 2007 July 19, Charles Isherwood, “Guilty Pleasures of Comic Kabuki”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- Despite its self-consciously assumed irreverence toward traditional practices, “Hokaibo” incorporates all the essential elements of classic Kabuki: the all-male company of actors, exaggerated makeup, the stomping dances, the arresting, cross-eyed poses at moments of high drama that are recognized and applauded.
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- (by extension, US) A stylized, pretentious, and often hollow performance; (especially) political posturing.
- 2010 March 14, Jon Lackman, “It’s Time To Retire Kabuki: The word doesn’t mean what pundits think it does”, in Slate:
- Health care reform recently brought Kabuki to mind for both Rush Limbaugh—“what you have here is ‘Kabuki theater’”—and New York Times columnist Frank Rich: “[I]f I were to place an incautious bet on which political event will prove the most significant of February 2010, I wouldn’t choose the kabuki health care summit.”
- 2020 January 29, Dan Brooks, “Comedy Written for the Machines”, in New York Times Magazine:
- The boy tells her she will find iPhone chargers if she takes five steps back. Here the performance shifts from mere stiltedness to a kind of hateful Kabuki, an affected defiance of how people naturally act: She walks backward, counting her steps, then turns and slaps her forehead.
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Derived terms
- kabuki brush
Translations
form of Japanese theatre
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Further reading
- kabuki on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Kubiak
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 歌舞伎 (kabuki).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.by.ki/, /ka.bu.ki/
Noun
kabuki m (plural kabukis)
- kabuki
Further reading
- “kabuki”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Etymology
From Japanese 歌舞伎 (kabuki).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈbuki/
- Hyphenation: ka‧bu‧ki
Noun
kabuki (first-person possessive kabukiku, second-person possessive kabukimu, third-person possessive kabukinya)
- (art, drama) kabuki.
Further reading
- “kabuki” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 歌舞伎 (kabuki).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈbu.ki/
- Rhymes: -uki
- Hyphenation: ka‧bù‧ki
Noun
kabuki m (uncountable)
- kabuki (Japanese theatrical genre)
Adjective
kabuki (invariable)
- (relational) kabuki
Further reading
- kabuki in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- kabuki in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Japanese
Romanization
kabuki
- Rōmaji transcription of かぶき
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 歌舞伎 (kabuki).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈbu.ki/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -uki
- Syllabification: ka‧bu‧ki
Noun
kabuki n (indeclinable)
- kabuki
Further reading
- kabuki in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kabuki in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- cabúqui
Etymology
Borrowing from Japanese 歌舞伎 (kabuki).
Noun
kabuki m (uncountable)
- kabuki (form of Japanese theatre)
Romanian
Etymology
From Unadapted borrowing from English kabuki or French kabuki.
Noun
kabuki n (uncountable)
- kabuki
Declension
declension of kabuki (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) kabuki | kabukiul |
genitive/dative | (unui) kabuki | kabukiului |
vocative | kabukiule |
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowing from Japanese 歌舞伎 (kabuki).
Noun
kabuki m (plural kabukis)
- kabuki
Adjective
kabuki (invariable)
- (relational) kabuki
Further reading
- “kabuki”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014