Pokémon en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈpəʉkəmɔn/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- audio Minneapolis
- /poˈkemon/ (Philippines)
- /ˈpokemon/ (Puerto-Rico)
- /ˈpoːkɪmɔn/ (South-Asia)
- [-kə-] (Canada)
- /ˈpoʊ.kə.mɑn/ (US) commonly
- /ˈpɐʉkəmɒn/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- /ˈpoʊ.keɪˌmɑn/ (US) officially
- (UK) audio
- [ˈpʰoʊ̯kɪmɒn] (Canada)
- /ˈpʰoʊkʰimɔn/ (Hong-Kong)
- /ˈpœʊkɨmɒn/ (General-South-African)
- [-kə-] (South-Asia)
- /ˈpəʊkəmɒn/ (UK)
- /ˈpoʊkiˌmɑn/ (US, proscribed, sometimes)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puhô Frankish *pokōbor. Old French poche Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Latin -ittus Old French -ete Anglo-Norman poketbor. Middle English pocket English pocketbor. Japanese ポケット Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti Proto-Italic *man-eje- Proto-Italic *moneō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Italic *-trom Proto-Italic *monestrom Latin mōnstrumbor. Old French monstrebor. Middle English monstre English monsterbor. Japanese モンスター Japanese ポケットモンスターclip. Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon)bor. English Pokémon Borrowed from Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon), a clipped compound of ポケットモンスター (Poketto Monsutā), itself from English pocket monster. The acute accent was added to signify the pronunciation.
Meanings
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A pocket monster; a fictional creature from the universe of the Pokémon franchise.
The beetles are named Binburrum articuno, Binburrum moltres and Binburrum zapdos after three rare Pokémon: Articuno, Moltres and Zapdos.
2021 September 15, Hannah Ryan, “RuPaul has a new namesake – and it’s a fabulous, rainbow-colored fly”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2022:He had been delighted when his mother said, Just leave everything as it is. Not even his bed was made. He could see that little kid’s mess, his clothes, his Pokémons, his old Winnie Dubdoub, his Spiderman^([sic]) poster; and the truck, alone in the empty house for days now, nearly two weeks.
2005, Eva Sallis, The Marsh Birds, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 15:Pokémons are the latest and adamantly conformist craze among middle-childhood boys. The theme of the video games that started the craze is, as usual, the triumph of good over evil. The hero is a child, twelve-year-old Ash. His goal is to capture all 150-plus nonhuman creatures called Pokémons, train them to be good, and use them to capture the remaining wicked Pokémons that so far have escaped. In the games, Ash is not your ally: he is you. Each of the Pokémons has its own sort of power which, after conversion, accrues to Ash’s (your) favor.
2001, Sara Stein, “Games They Play”, in Noah’s Children: Restoring the Ecology of Childhood, New York, N.Y.: North Point Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 248:Game strategy (and tactics) are full of such learning about real life, like the rules, the strategy in games needs to be lifelike for the games to make sense, even if the characters, such as Pokémons, are purely imaginary.
2005, Marc Prensky, “Computer Games and Learning: Digital Game-Based Learning”, in Joost Raessens, Jeffrey Goldstein, editors, Handbook of Computer Game Studies, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, →ISBN, part II (Design), page 106, column 2:Professor Oak, the world's leading Pokémon expert, is at once a genius and a bumbling, absent-minded professor
2009, Mark I. West, The Japanification of children's popular culture: from godzilla to miyazaki, page 59:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pokemon | Polite=Infm | alternative | lexicographic |
| Pokémons | Number=Plur | nonstandard | lexicographic |
| Pokémon | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
PLA · Pokédex · Pokeyman · PoGo · PMD · Basic Pokémon · PG · PokéTuber · Fakémon · Poképhile · Pokémaniac · Poké- · Pokéfan · shillmon · Pokégirl · Pokeymen · legendary Pokémon · Pokémon Goer · Pokédollar · Pokémon-esque · Pokémania
Translations (27)
ar بوكيمون (fictional creature) · ja ポケットモンスター (fictional creature) · te పోకెమొన్ (fictional creature) · ja ポケモン (fictional creature) · kn ಪೋಕೆಮೊನ್ (fictional creature) · ur پوکیمون (fictional creature) · pt poquémon (fictional creature) · gl pokémon (fictional creature) · es pokémon (fictional creature) · ko 포켓몬 (fictional creature) · fi Pokémon (fictional creature) · sv pokémon (fictional creature) · ta போகெமொன் (fictional creature) · bg по́кемон (fictional creature) · ka პოკემონი (fictional creature) · uk покемо́н (fictional creature) · si පෝකෙමොන් (fictional creature) · lo ໂປເກມອນ (fictional creature) · tr Pokémon (fictional creature) · pl Pokémon (fictional creature) · fr Pokémon (fictional creature) · de Pokémon (fictional creature) · ru покемо́н (fictional creature) · ar پوكيمون (fictional creature) · it Pokémon (fictional creature) · th โปเกมอน (fictional creature) · pt Pokémon (fictional creature)