さみだれ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of さみだれ – see the following entry.
【五月雨】
[noun] a heavy rain that occurs around the fifth lunar month; an early summer rain
[noun] (figurative) that which repeats over and over without lasting long
[proper noun] a Shiratsuyu-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II (see Japanese destroyer Samidare (1935) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
[proper noun] a place name
(This term, さみだれ (samidare), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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