Dictionary

Nipponize en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree English Nippon Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English Nipponize From Nippon + -ize.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To make or become Japanese, as to customs, culture, or style.
   • Christianity should be Japan’s greatest ally in Nipponizing its new territory. 1913 January, “A Great Crime Against Justice”, in Doremus Scudder, editor, The Friend, volume LXXI, number 1, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii: Hawaiian Board Book Rooms, page 4, column 2:
   • The movie “Nipponizes” King Lear within the protocols of the formalistic patterns of traditional “Noh” drama. 2012, “Introduction to the Focus Edition”, in William Shakespeare, edited by Kenneth S[prague] Rothwell, The Tragedy of King Lear (New Kittredge Shakespeare), Newburyport, Mass.: Focus Publishing/R[on] Pullins Company, →ISBN, page xxii:
   • He invited me for a meal. The table was set with plates and chopsticks, little dishes of soy sauce and wasabi paste; bigger platters of sushi, sashimi, tempura, and dumplings; bowls of miso soup. “I have been thoroughly Nipponized,” Floyd said. 2017, Paul Theroux, “Best Man”, in Mother Land, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Eamon Dolan Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 361:
2. (transitive) To convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script.
3. (transitive) To translate into Japanese.

Forms

Synonyms

Japanicize · Japanize

Translations (38)

fi japanisoitua (to make or become Japanese) · fi japanisoida (to make or become Japanese) · pl zjaponizować (to make or become Japanese) · es niponizar (to convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script) · vi Nhật hóa (to convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script) · es traducir a japonés (to translate into Japanese) · ja 日本化する (to make or become Japanese) · ru перевести́ на япо́нский (to translate into Japanese) · pl zjaponizować (to translate into Japanese) · cmn 日本化 (to convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script) · ar تَرْجَمَ إِلَى اَلْيَابَانِيَّة (to translate into Japanese) · lt japoninti (to make or become Japanese) · cmn 日本化 (to make or become Japanese) · fr nipponiser (to make or become Japanese) · ru переводи́ть на япо́нский (to translate into Japanese) · cmn 翻譯成日語 /翻译成日语 (to translate into Japanese) · es niponizar (to make or become Japanese) · fr traduire en japonais (to translate into Japanese) · pt niponizar (to make or become Japanese) · cmn 皇民化 (to make or become Japanese) · pl zjaponizować (to convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script) · tr japonlaştırmak (to make or become Japanese) · ru японизи́ровать (to make or become Japanese) · pl japonizować (to make or become Japanese) · ru японизи́ровать (to convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script) · pl japonizować (to translate into Japanese) · vi Nhật Bản hóa (to make or become Japanese) · fi japanintaa (to translate into Japanese) · vi Nhật Bản hóa (to convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script) · fr japoniser (to make or become Japanese) · ja 日本語に翻訳する (to translate into Japanese) · ja 仮名書きする (to convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script) · fr nipponiser (to convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script) · ja 日本化する (to convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script) · pl japonizować (to convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script) · ja 和訳する (to translate into Japanese) · fr japoniser (to convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script) · vi Nhật hóa (to make or become Japanese)