onsen

English

One of the outdoor baths at an onsen at the onsen in Nachikatsuura, Japan

A room at a traditional onsen

Etymology

From Japanese 温泉 (onsen), from Middle Chinese 溫泉 (ʔuən d͡ziuᴇn, “hot springs”), from 溫／温 (wēn, “warm”) + 泉 (quán, “spring[s]”). Compare the modern Mandarin pronunciation 溫泉／温泉 (wēnquán).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɒnˈsɛn/, /ˈɒnsɛn/

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Noun

onsen (plural onsen or onsens)

1. A (Japanese) hot spring.

   The hottest springs in Japan aren't in the north but at the Obama Onsen outside Nagasaki.

2. A Japanese-style resort hotel at a natural hot spring, offering on-site bathing.

   We stayed at a traditional onsen with tatami, yukata, and kaiseki at Onyang outside Seoul.

Holonyms

• (Japanese hot spring): hot spring
• (traditional Japanese-style inn): ryokan

Translations

a Japanese hot spring; a Japanese-style resort hotel at a hot spring

• Arabic: أُون-سِن m (ʔon-sen)
• Bulgarian: онсе́н m (onsén)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 溫泉／温泉 (zh) (wēnquán)

• Finnish: onsen
• French: onsen (fr) m
• German: Onsen n
• Indonesian: onsen
• Japanese: 温泉 (ja) (おんせん, onsen)
• Khmer: អុនសេន (ʼonseen)
• Korean: 온천(温泉) (ko) (oncheon), 온센 (onsen)
• Macedonian: онсе́н m (onsén)
• Portuguese: onsen m
• Russian: онсэ́н (ru) m (onsɛ́n), онсе́н m (onsɛ́n)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: онсен m

  Roman: onsen m

• Tagalog: onsen
• Thai: บ่อพุร้อน (bɔ̀ɔ-pú-rɔ́ɔn), อนเซ็น (on-sen)
• Ukrainian: онсе́н m (onsén)

Anagrams

• Nones, Sonne, neons, nones, sonne

Indonesian

Etymology

From Japanese 温泉(おんせん) (onsen, “hot spring”), from Middle Chinese 溫泉／温泉 (ʔwon-dzüen, “hot spring”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /on.sɛn/
• Hyphenation: on‧sèn

Noun

onsen (first-person possessive onsenku, second-person possessive onsenmu, third-person possessive onsennya)

1. hot spring, onsen.

Further reading

• “onsen” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese.

Noun

onsen m (invariable)

1. onsen

Anagrams

• se non, senno, sennò

Japanese

Romanization

onsen

1. Rōmaji transcription of おんせん

Portuguese

Noun

onsen m (plural onsens)

1. onsen (a Japanese hot spring)

Spanish

Noun

onsen m (plural onsens)

1. onsen