kami

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
11
Letters
4

Definition of kami

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”
    “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.”
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noun

  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.”
    “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.”
  2. The metaphysical causal generator of motion, life, or divinish aura.
  3. A basic origami paper, usually printed with a colour or pattern on one side.
  4. (plural, plural-only)An ethnic and linguistic group in Morogoro Region, Tanzania.

name

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

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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

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3-letter words

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2-letter words

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Hooks

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