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kendo

kendo

See also: kendő and kendō

English

A kendo match.

Noun

kendo ‎(uncountable)

a Japanese martial art using "swords" of split bamboo.

Translations

a Japanese martial art

Afrikaans: kendo
Arabic:
Chinese:
Mandarin: 劍道 (zh), 剑道 (zh) ‎(jiàndào)
Hindi:
Indonesian: kendo (id)
Japanese: 剣道 (ja) ‎(けんどう, kendō)
Khmer: គុនដំបង ‎(kun dɑmbɑɑŋ)
Korean: 검도 (ko) ‎(geomdo) (劍道 (ko))
Malay: kendo

Norwegian:

Bokmål: kendo m

Nynorsk: kendo m
Persian:
Romanian: kendo
Russian: кэндо́ (ru) n ‎(kɛndó)
Thai: เคนโด้ ‎(kayndôh)
Ukrainian:
Vietnamese:

Anagrams

donek

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowing from Japanese 剣道 ‎(kendō, “the way of the sword”), from Middle Chinese 劍 ‎(kjæ̀m, “sword”) + 道 ‎(dáu, “way”).

Noun

kendo ‎(uncountable)

kendo

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