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- Japanese · borrowed from親潮“Parent Tide”
- English todayOyashio
Borrowed from the rōmaji transcription of Japanese 親潮 (Oyashio, “Parent Tide”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oyashio
Today it means: The oceanic current forming the swift, warm, northward-flowing western quarter of the North Pacific Gyre. Full definition →
Japanese 親潮