Pearl Harbor

English <dab!> Alternative forms en Pearl Harbour Etymology en haw Wai Momi pearl water. The extended senses allude to the surprise attack executed by the Imperial Japanese Navy on the harbor on December 7, 1941. Pronunciation en /ˌpɝ˞l ˈhɑɹbɚ/ General American en /ˌpɜːl ˈhɑːbə/ Received Pronunciation en En-au-Pearl Harbor.ogg AU Proper noun pearl harbor A placename en deep water harbor isl/Oahu island chain/Hawaii c/USA in the ocean/Pacific. en military en naval base haven/Pearl Harbor co/Oahu s/Hawaii c/USA: a US Navy base en motion picture Bluto John Belushi w:Animal House 1978 Universal Pictures Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney; Chris Miller Bluto: What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!Otter: [to Boon] Germans?Boon: Forget it, he's rolling. en Pearl Harbour. en historical metonym The en attack on Pearl Harbor. en Pearl Harbor happened in 1941 and was the direct cause of the United States' entry into World War II. en Everybody Comes to Rick’s: “Casablanca” on the Big Screen David Denby 2012-03-19 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/everybody-comes-to-ricks-casablanca-on-the-big-screen w:The New Yorker “Casablanca” was completed in 1942, but it’s set in December, 1941, the time of Pearl Harbor. https://web.archive.org/web/20160710062142/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/everybody-comes-to-ricks-casablanca-on-the-big-screen Translations a harbor on Oahu Arabic: ar بِيرْل هَارْبَر m birl harbar Belarusian: be Перл-Ха́рбар m Bulgarian: bg Пърл Ха́рбър m Carpathian Rusyn: rue Перл Га́рбор m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 珍珠港 Zhēnzhūgǎng Dutch: nl Pearl Harbor Finnish: fi Pearl Harbor German: de Pearl Harbor n Greek: el Περλ Χάρμπορ Hawaiian: haw Wai Momi Hebrew: he פרל הארבור Hindi: hi पर्ल हार्बर parl hārbar Icelandic: is Perluhöfn f Japanese: ja 真珠湾 しんじゅわん, Shinjuwan, ja パールハーバー Pāru Hābā Korean: ko ^진주만(珍珠灣), ko ^펄 ^하버 Macedonian: mk Перл Харбор m Marathi: mr पर्ल हार्बर Persian: fa پرل هاربر perl hârbor Polish: pl Pearl Harbor m Portuguese: pt Pearl Harbor f Russian: ru Пёрл-Ха́рбор m, ru Перл-Ха́рбор m, ru Перл-Ха́рбор m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Перл Харбор m Latin: sh Pearl Harbor m, sh Perl Harbor m Slovene: sl Pearl Harbor m Thai: th ท่าเรือเพิร์ล tâa reua pern Ukrainian: uk Перл-Ха́рбор m Vietnamese: vi Trân Châu Cảng Noun pearl harbor A sneak attack, often using underhanded measures. en 2002 Richard F. Hill Hitler Attacks Pearl Harbor: Why the United States Declared War on Germany 85 Most Americans wanted no more Pearl Harbors, but they now expected Germany to attempt one. A seminal dramatic event that unites a community and arouses it into action against an enemy. en 1991 Terminal Compromise w:Winn Schwartau https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/79/pg79.html For all practical purposes, the United States is undergoing an electronic Pearl Harbor, and the target is one of the most crucial segments of our way of life: Information. en John Schwartz Danny McPherson Preparing for a digital Pearl Harbor w:The New York Times 2007-06-24 https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/business/worldbusiness/24iht-cyber.1.6299676.html 0362-4331 Still, instead of thinking in terms of the industry's repeated warnings of a "digital Pearl Harbor," McPherson said, "I think cyberwarfare will be far more subtle," in that "certain parts of the system won't work, or it will be that we can't trust information we're looking at." https://web.archive.org/web/20210110012201/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/business/worldbusiness/24iht-cyber.1.6299676.html en 2012-07-06 Milton Clary Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Drone Hijacking? That’s Just the Start of GPS Troubles http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/drone-hijacking/all/ Wired (magazine) Wired We certainly don’t want a GPS Pearl Harbor, but probably it’s gonna take a GPS Mogadishu to get people’s attention. https://web.archive.org/web/20130208082700/https://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/drone-hijacking/all/ en-GB Ben Doherty Israel military says situation ‘dire’ in south as 260 bodies retrieved from festival w:The Guardian 2023-10-09 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/09/supernova-festival-israel-attack-hamas-military-death-toll-kibbutz-reim 0261-3077 IDF says fighting is ongoing in south, saying it ‘could be a 9/11 and a Pearl Harbour wrapped into one’ as Supernova festival-goers describe attack[.] https://web.archive.org/web/20231103065943/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/09/supernova-festival-israel-attack-hamas-military-death-toll-kibbutz-reim Verb pearl harbor en often passive slang To attack by surprise; to subject to a sneak attack. en 2000 James P. Sterba Earth Ethics: Introductory Readings on Animal Rights 345 The first and second ships had been successfully Pearl Harbored. The third was not to be surprised. As we approached, she dropped her net and fled. We pursued. en 2013 Heiner Timmermann The Future a Memory: The Cold War and Intelligence 127 Pearl Harbor had seared itself into the American consciousness, but even at the times of greatest tension American Presidents never believed that they were about to be Pearl Harbored again. en often passive slang rare To take rudely by surprise. 2001, Arthur C. Clarke, quoted in Stylistics: A Resource Book for Students (2004, 0415281059), page 143: Of course, with the Soviets' launch of Sputnik, the Americans had been Pearl Harbored in space. en 2015 Halloween Shrieks 107 1326086294 If I had quit two houses sooner than I did all would have been well but since I didn't, I got Pearl Harbored by some big kid dressed up in a Ben Cooper Howdy Doody plastic outfit and a goofily grinning mask See also en Pearl Pearl Harbour en terms derived from toponyms en World War II Polish pl: Etymology pl :ubor en:Pearl Harbor<ety:uder<haw:Wai Momi>> 2 1 Pronunciation perl harbor Proper noun m-in 1 Pearl Harbor pl harbour/and/naval base s/Hawaii c/United States Pearl Harbor pl historical rare the attack on Pearl Harbor Further reading pl Historical events History of the United States pl exonyms Portuguese pt: Etymology pt en Pearl Harbor, calqued from pt haw Wai Momi. Proper noun f 1 pt harbour/and/naval base s/Hawaii c/United States Pearl Harbor Serbo-Croatian bs: hr: Alternative forms sh Perl Harbor Etymology sh en Pearl Harbor, calqued from sh haw Wai Momi. Pronunciation pȅrl̩ hàrbor Noun sh proper noun 1 m sh Bosnia Croatia sh harbour/and/naval base s/Hawaii c/United States Pearl Harbor Further reading eV9iXhE%3D Slovene sl: Etymology sl en Pearl Harbor, calqued from sl haw Wai Momi. Pronunciation Pȇrl Hȃrbor Noun Pȇarl Hȃrbor m-in sl harbour/and/naval base s/Hawaii c/United States Pearl Harbor