harakiri

harakiri (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of hara-kiri.

• hari-kari, harikari

Borrowed from Japanese 腹切.

harakiri

1. hara-kiri
   • 1891, Niels Juel-Hansen, Japanesere: fortaelling for ungdommen:

     Enhver fornem Japaneser vokser op med Dødstanken, med Tanken om Harakirien, for at han, om Skæbnen vil det, kan dø roligt, værdigt, dø som en Mand.

     Any high-class Japanese grows up with the thought of death, with the thought of harakiri, that he, if fate wills it, may die calmly, dignifiedly, die as a man.

   • 1985, Per Højholt, Kvababbelser:

     Og jeg taler videre / nu i munden på en mund i min / min paniks suveræne Mills Brothers / helt hinsides mening og orden, hængende i / harakiriens / pedantiske syntaks, ...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• seppuku

• hara-kiri (archaic)

Borrowed from Japanese 腹切.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɦaː.raːˈki.ri/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ha‧ra‧ki‧ri

harakiri m (plural harakiri's)

1. hara-kiri [from mid 19th c.]

   Synonym: seppuku

From Japanese 腹切り.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑrɑkiri/, [ˈhɑ̝rɑ̝ˌk̟iri]
• Rhymes: -iri
• Syllabification^(key): ha‧ra‧ki‧ri
• Hyphenation^(key): ha‧ra‧ki‧ri

harakiri

1. hara-kiri, seppuku

• “harakiri”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (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

From Japanese 腹切(はらき)り (harakiri), ultimately from 腹 (hara, “belly”) + 切る (kiru, “to cut”).

harakiri (plural harakiri-harakiri)

1. hara-kiri: ceremonial suicide by disembowelment, as by slicing open the abdomen with a dagger or knife: formerly practised in Japan by the Samurai when disgraced or sentenced to death

• bushido
• kamikaze

harakiri

1. Rōmaji transcription of はらきり

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 腹切り.

• IPA^(key): /xa.raˈki.ri/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iri
• Syllabification: ha‧ra‧ki‧ri

harakiri n (indeclinable)

1. hara-kiri, seppuku (ceremonial suicide by ripping open the abdomen)

   Synonym: seppuku

• harakiri in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• harakiri in Polish dictionaries at PWN

harakiri m (plural harakiris)

1. alternative spelling of haraquiri

For quotations using this term, see Citations:harakiri.

harakiri m (uncountable)

1. alternative form of haraquiri

• “harakiri”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Japanese 腹切り.

harakiri c

1. hara-kiri

   begå harakiri

   commit harakiri

• seppuku

• harakiri in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• harakiri in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• harakiri in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˌhaɾaˈkiɾi/ [ˌhaː.ɾɐˈxiː.ɾɪ]
• Rhymes: -iɾi
• Syllabification: ha‧ra‧ki‧ri

hárakíri (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜇᜃᜒᜇᜒ)

1. alternative spelling of hara-kiri