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サンタクロース
サンタクロース
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Santa Claus
サンタクロース is borrowed from English Santa Claus.
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In a sentence
彼はサンタクロースの扮装をした。
He got himself up as Santa Claus.
彼はサンタクロースを信じてるんだ。
He believes in Santa Claus.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Borrowed from English Santa Claus.”
Source: Wiktionary: サンタクロース (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 外来語 Loanword
- Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.