TSUNAMIとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• sunami (nonstandard)

語源

Borrowed from Japanese 津波 (tsunami), from 津 (tsu, “harbour”) +‎ 波 (nami, “wave”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /(t)suːˈnɑːmi/; enPR: (t)so͞o-nä'mi
• (Canada) IPA: /(t)suˈnæmi/, /(t)suˈnɑmi/
• (Philippines) IPA: /t͡ʃʊˈnami/
• 韻: -ɑːmi

名詞

tsunami (plural tsunami or tsunamis)

1. A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption; often a series of waves (a wave train).

   A tsunami struck Japan recently.

   • 2007 February 20, Tina Kelley, “A Wet Wind Tunnel So Ships Can Move Faster and Better”, in The New York Times‎:

     A wave simulator in the tank can re-enact tsunamis and northeasters, and imitate wave conditions from midocean.

2. (figurative) A large and generally unstoppable surge.
   • 2009, John Bernard Kelly, An Accidental Atheist: A Memoir, Aquinine books, →ISBN, page 306:

     It seemed that what started out as a handful of isolated cases gradually turned into a tsunami of complaints.

   • 2009, Marc Eliot, American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood, Crown Archetype, →ISBN, page 86:

     It set off a tsunami of debate among the more esoteric critics, who either loved it or hated it but could not ignore it.

   • 2012, Demetra M. Pappas, The Euthanasia/Assisted-Suicide Debate, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 60:

     The next decade would culminate in a tsunami of legislation, civil litigation, and criminal prosecutions in which assisted suicide was both criminalized (as in Michigan) and decriminalized (as in Oregon).

   • 2020 August 26, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: Catastrophe at Carmont”, in Rail, page 4:

     The editor paid a heavy price - he was subsequently compelled to offer a grovelling and humiliating personal apology, following a tsunami of protest.

   • 2025 June 21, Jo Ellison, “The Bezos merger we all want a piece of”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 22:

     Sadly, [Anna] Wintour did not control the weather, which was disappointingly inclement. But, no matter, because the event was awash with a “tsunami of love”.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:tsunami.

同意語

• seismic sea wave
• tidal wave (usage conflict)

派生語

参考

• earthquake
• flood
• natural disaster
• seaquake
• seiche
• tidal wave
• tsunami earthquake
• waterquake

Further reading

• tsunami on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• tsunami on Wikiversity.Wikiversity
• Category:tsunami on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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