What is the meaning of the Japanese word kamikaze?
Kamikaze (typhoon) was the god who turned the storms against the Mongols. Other variations say that the gods Fūjin, Ryūjin or Hachiman caused the destructive kamikaze. The name given to the storm, "kamikaze", was later used during World War II as nationalist propaganda for suicide attacks by Japanese pilots. The metaphor meant that the pilots were to be the "Divine Wind" that would again sweep the enemy from the seas. This use of "kamikaze" has come to be the common meaning of the word in English. Kamikaze (typhoon) The were two winds or storms that are said to have saved Japan from
Baka (Japanese word) that "baka" derives from a Sanskrit word meaning "fool". According to the Japanese linguist and lexicographer Shinmura Izuru, the Edo-period scholar Amano Sadakage 天野信景 (1663–1733) originally suggested that Japanese Buddhist priests coined the word "baka" "fool" from Sanskrit. Modern reference works give two possible Sanskrit sources for the word, "moha" (transcribed 慕何) "foolish" and "mahallaka" (摩訶羅) "stupid". Sanskrit "moha" मोह means "bewilderment, loss of consciousness, delusion, folly" and comes from the root "muh" "bewildered, perplexed, confused". Sanskrit "mahallaka" means "senile, feeble minded, stupid, decrepit" and comes from "mūrkha" मोह "dull, stupid, foolish, inexperienced; fool". Other proposed etymologies for "baka" are