harakiri

English

Noun

harakiri (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of hara-kiri

Anagrams

• hari-kari, harikari

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 腹切.

Noun

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)

Declension

Synonyms

• seppuku

Dutch

Alternative forms

• hara-kiri (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 腹切.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɦaː.raːˈki.ri/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ha‧ra‧ki‧ri

Noun

harakiri m (plural harakiri's)

1. hara-kiri

   Synonym: seppuku

Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese 腹切り.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

harakiri

1. hara-kiri, seppuku

Declension

Further reading

• “harakiri”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

harakiri

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

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

Noun

harakiri (first-person possessive harakiriku, second-person possessive harakirimu, third-person possessive harakirinya)

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.

See also

• bushido
• kamikaze

Japanese

Romanization

harakiri

1. Rōmaji transcription of はらきり

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

harakiri

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 腹切り.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xa.raˈki.ri/

• Audio

  (file)

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

Noun

harakiri n (indeclinable)

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

   Synonym: seppuku

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Noun

harakiri m (plural harakiris)

1. Alternative spelling of haraquiri

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:harakiri.

Spanish

Noun

harakiri m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of haraquiri

Further reading

• “harakiri”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

harakiri

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

From Japanese 腹切り.

Noun

harakiri c

1. hara-kiri

   begå harakiri

   commit harakiri

Declension

See also

• seppuku

References

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

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhaɾaˈkiɾi/,
• Hyphenation: ha‧ra‧ki‧ri

Noun

hárakíri (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜇᜃᜒᜇᜒ)

1. Alternative spelling of hara-kiri