anime

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), itself borrowed from English animation, from Latin animātiō, from animāre.

• animé

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.ɪ.meɪ/

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ə.nɪ.meː/

anime (countable and uncountable, plural anime or animes)

1. (countable) An animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style.
   • 1998, “One Week”, performed by Barenaked Ladies:

     Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon / 'Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes / That make me think the wrong thing

   • 2005, Peter J. Katzenstein, A World of Regions, page 165:

     After three months of successful sales in manga form, it was made into an anime for television.

   • 2005, Joan D. Vinge, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, page cix:

     Usually the manga comes first, though it may be an offshoot of a novel, and an anime may be inspired by a video game.

   • 2006, Thomas LaMarre, edited by Tomiko Yoda and Harry D. Harootunian, Japan After Japan, page 363:

     These anime prepared the way for Otaku no video, a two-part Original Video Animation (OVA).

   • 2014 March 11, Ben Huh, “10 classic memes that owned the Internet”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Originally found in the opening dialogue sequence from the 1989 Japanese space shoot’em up game “Zero Wing,” this awkward translation of the phrase “all of your bases are under our control” swept across gaming message boards and forums in the late 1990s, giving rise to one of the first epic-scale “Photoshop memes” based on poorly translated quotes from Japanese video games and animes.

2. (uncountable) An artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries.

   I can draw an anime version of you, if you want.

   • 2019 July 28, Emiko Jozuka, “Japanese anime: From ‘Disney of the East’ to a global industry worth billions”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Touching on themes as disparate as sex, death, science fiction and romance, manga and anime catered to all ages and tastes. Commercial hits like “Pokémon” and “Dragon Ball Z,” meanwhile, projected a new image of Japan to the world.

3. (rare, countable, chiefly proscribed) An animated work, regardless of the country of origin.

• (a Japanese animated work): Japanimation (dated), Japanime (dated)

• (a Japanese animated work): cartoon, animation

• (a Japanese animated work): manga (a Japanese graphic illustration work)
• (a Chinese animated work): dònghuà

Borrowed from French animé (“animated”) (from the insects that are entrapped in it); or native name.

anime (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of animé (“the resin of the courbaril”).

• Maine, minæ, minae, maine, I mean, amine, -amine, manie, Emina

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

• IPA^(key): /aˈɲi.mɛ/

anime (plural anime)

1. anime (Japanese animation)

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

• IPA^(key): /anime/ [a.ni.me]
• Rhymes: -ime, -e
• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧me

anime inan

1. anime
   • 2009 December 27, Elena Senao, “Japoniarren bi aurpegiak”, in Argia, number 2212:

     Beste batzuk, berriz, animeetako marrazkien antzera janzten dira; Alizia herrialde miresgarrian ipuinetik ateratakoak ematen du zenbaitek.

     Others, however, disguise themselves in the style of anime cartoons; some look like characters from the tale Alice in Wonderland.

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

anime

1. anime

• animefigur

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.ni.meː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ani‧me

anime m (plural anime's, diminutive animeetje n)

1. (uncountable) anime
2. (countable) an anime

animo +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /aˈnime/
• Rhymes: -ime
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧me

anime

1. in one’s soul; spiritually
   • (Can we date this quote?) Lydia Zamenhof (translator), Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Part 1, Chapter 26,

     ŝi sentis, ke tiu nefleksebla kaj danĝera homo apartenas nun al ŝi anime kaj korpe, kiel sklavo

     she felt that that unbending and dangerous man belonged to her now, soul and body, like a slave (Jeremiah Curtin translation)

2. in one’s mind; mentally, psychologically
   • (Can we date this quote?) Jurij Finkel (translator), La Horo de Bovo (Час Быка / The Bull’s Hour) by Ivan Yefremov, Chapter 7,

     Kiom da trompoj ankoraŭ atendas ĉi tie, precipe inter homoj, tute similaj al la teraj kaj tiom malsamaj anime!

     How many misapprehensions were still in store here, especially among people [who] looked just like Terrans but whose minds were so unlike theirs (lit. so different mentally)!

   • (Can we date this quote?) István Nemere, “Tunelo helnigra,” review of La tunelo by Marco Picasso, in Literatura Foiro 176, December 1998,

     Certe estas tiaj situacioj en la vivo de ni ĉiuj. Kaj en la romano mi trovis lokojn, kie mi ekkriis anime: “Jen, tion ankaŭ mi verkus samtiel!”

     There are certainly situations like that in all of our lives. And in the novel I found places, where in my head I would exclaim: “That’s just how I would have written it, too!”

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑnime/, [ˈɑ̝nime̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑnime
• Syllabification^(key): a‧ni‧me
• Hyphenation^(key): ani‧me

anime

1. anime

• “anime”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• Maine, Minea, Naemi, maine

• IPA^(key): /a.nim/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

  (file)

anime

1. inflection of animer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• en ami, Maine, manie, manié, menai

• ànime

From Latin anima (“breath, soul”) (cf. Italian alma, Romansh olma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ni.me/

anime f (plural animis)

1. soul

• animâ
• nemâl

From English anime, from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒnimɛ]
• Rhymes: -mɛ
• Hyphenation: ani‧me
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧me

anime (plural animék)

1. anime (artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation)
2. anime (animated work originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style)

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), itself borrowed from English animation. Doublet of aeni and animasi.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aˈnime/ [aˈni.me]
• Rhymes: -ime
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧me

animé (countable and uncountable, plural anime-anime)

1. anime

   Hypernym: animasi

   1. (countable) an animation originating from Japan, regardless of its style
   2. (uncountable) an artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation

• “anime”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ni.me/
• Rhymes: -anime
• Hyphenation: à‧ni‧me

anime f pl

1. plural of anima

• Maine, ameni, emani, emina, manie, menai

anime

1. Rōmaji transcription of アニメ

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.nɪ.mɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.ni.me]

anime m

1. vocative singular of animus

Borrowed from English anime, from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), itself borrowed from English animation, from Latin animātiō, from animāre. Doublet of animasi.

• (English-based) IPA^(key): [ɛ.ni.me]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

    (file)

• (spelling-based) IPA^(key): [a.ni.me]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -me, -e
• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧me

anime (Jawi spelling انيمي, plural anime-anime or anime²)

1. Anime:
   1. An artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries.

      Gaya lukisan yang popular kebelakangan ini ialah gaya anime.

      A drawing style that has been popular recently is the anime style.

   2. An animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style.

      Anime ini merupakan hasil kerja Studio Ghibli.

      This anime is a product of the work of Studio Ghibli.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːˌni.me/

ānime

1. inflection of āniman:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime). First attested in 1997.

• IPA^(key): /aˈɲi.mɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -imɛ
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧me

anime n (indeclinable)

1. (animation) anime (artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries)

   Coordinate term: manga

2. (animation) anime (animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style)

   Coordinate term: manga

anime (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (animation, postpositive, relational) anime (artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries)
2. (animation, postpositive, relational) anime (animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style)

• “anime I”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “anime II”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[5] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “anime”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[6] (in Polish)

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime),^[1][2] an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧me

anime m (plural animes)

1. anime (Japanese animation)
   • 2009, Fábio Andrews Rocha Marques, O Livro Que Nós Criamos, Clube de Autores, page 81:

     Princess: Anime? O que é isso?
     Nakamura: São os desenhos animados japoneses, mas diferente do resto do mundo, são desenhos para todas as idades. Tem animes com muito sangue e batalhas de espada, mas existem animes de romance com histórias bem dramáticas também.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• animé, animê

• animação, animar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧me

anime

1. inflection of animar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “anime”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

anime n (plural animeuri)

1. anime

anime

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of anima

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

• animé (chiefly Latin America), ánime

• IPA^(key): /aniˈme/ [a.niˈme] (chiefly Latin America)
  • Rhymes: -e
• IPA^(key): /aˈnime/ [aˈni.me]
  • Rhymes: -ime
• IPA^(key): /ˈanime/ [ˈa.ni.me]
  • Rhymes: -anime
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧me

anime m (plural animes)

1. (uncountable, also attributive) anime (artistic style originating in Japan)

   chica anime ― anime girl

   • 2021 December 7, Jacqueline Howard, “Una convención de anime en Nueva York podría ofrecer el primer vistazo a la transmisión de la variante ómicron en Estados Unidos, según los CDC”, in CNN en Español‎^[7]:

     Era su último día en Nueva York. Había pasado cuatro días emocionantes en los que se reunió por primera vez en persona con los amigos que había hecho por Internet durante la pandemia. Exploraron juntos las ajetreadas calles de Nueva York y vieron exposiciones de anime en la convención Anime NYC.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (countable) an anime (animated work in that style)

From Medieval Latin amineus (“white”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈnime/ [aˈni.me]
• Rhymes: -ime
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧me

anime m (uncountable)

1. animé (resin)
2. (Cuba, Ecuador) courbaril (Hymenaea courbaril)
3. (Venezuela) expanded polystyrene (EPS), styrofoam

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:poliestireno expandido

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /aˈnime/ [aˈni.me]
• Rhymes: -ime
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧me

anime

1. inflection of animar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “anime”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “anime”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ via English animie

anime c

1. anime (style of animation)
2. an anime (work of anime)

• manga

• “anime”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “anime”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “anime”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Borrowed from English anime (“Japanese animation”), from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), itself from English animation, from Latin animātiō.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔanime/ [ˌʔaː.n̪ɪˈmɛ]
• Rhymes: -anime
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧me

ánimé (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈᜒᜋᜒ)

1. anime (Japanese animation)