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kami

kami noun: an animistic god or spirit in the Shinto religion of Japan.

kami: an animistic god or spirit in the Shinto religion of Japan
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Noun (1)

kami (plural kamis or kami)

  1. An animistic god or spirit in the Shinto religion of Japan.
    • Chanting the mantra of the fire kami, they called to the blaze, summoning the heart of each flickering flame to life.2000, Ree Soesbee, “Armies on the March”, in The Crane (Legend of the Five Rings), Renton, Wash.: Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, page 96
    • But Ryōtora had definitely moved a shintai during the makeshift festival – and it must have been Saiun-nushi’s, because Sekken couldn’t imagine the shugenja could call a kami into a foreign vessel without noticing.2021, Marie Brennan [pseudonym; Bryn Neuenschwander], chapter 18, in The Night Parade of 100 Demons (Legend of the Five Rings), Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: Aconyte Books, →ISBN, page 211
  2. The metaphysical causal generator of motion, life, or divinish aura.

Noun (2)

kami (plural kami)

  1. A basic origami paper, usually printed with a colour or pattern on one side.

Noun (3) capitalized: Kami

Kami pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An ethnic and linguistic group in Morogoro Region, Tanzania.

Proper noun capitalized: Kami

Kami

  1. A Bantu language of Tanzania.
  2. A Niger-Congo language of Nigeria.

kami meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

kami in Hindi

कामि, कामी

kami in Tamil

நாங்கள்

kami in Marathi

कामि, कामी

kami in Urdu

کامی
More languagesFewer languages
kami in Bengali
কামি
kami in Telugu
కామి
kami in Malayalam
കാമി
kami in Kannada
ಕಾಮಿ
kami in Punjabi
ਕਾਮੀ, ਕਾਮਿ
kami in Gujarati
કામિ, કામી
kami in Odia
କାମି
kami in Nepali
कामि, कामी

Forms of kami

pluralkamis
pluralkami

Plural of kami: kami

Origin of kami

Borrowed from Japanese 神 (kami, “god, spirit, deity”).

Borrowed from Japanese 紙 (kami, “paper”).

Phrases with kami

Questions about kami

What does kami mean?
Kami means an animistic god or spirit in the Shinto religion of Japan.
What is kami in Hindi?
Kami in Hindi is कामि, कामी. See Kami meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is kami?
Kami can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of kami?
The plural of kami is kamis.

Words near kami in the dictionary

  1. Kamerunians
  2. kames
  3. Kamet
  4. kameti
  5. Kameyama
  6. kami
  7. Kamia
  8. Kamiah
  9. Kamianets-Podilskyi
  10. Kamianka
  11. Kamianka-Buzka

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kami (page history and authors); Kami (page history and authors); kami (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); Kami (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); kami (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kami (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kami (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kami (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kami (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kami (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kami (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kami (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kami (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kami (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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