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, ...

• seppuku

• hara-kiri (archaic)

Borrowed from Japanese 腹切.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɦaː.raːˈki.ri/
• Hyphenation: ha‧ra‧ki‧ri

harakiri m (plural harakiri's)

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

   Synonym: seppuku

From Japanese 腹切り.

• Rhymes: -iri

harakiri

1. hara-kiri, seppuku

Borrowing from Japanese 腹切り (harakiri), ultimately from 腹 (hara, “belly”) + 切る (kiru, “to cut”).

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

1. 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

From Japanese 腹切り.

• IPA^(key): /xa.raˈkʲi.rʲi/

harakiri n

1. hara-kiri

Indeclinable.

• harakiri in Polish dictionaries at PWN

harakiri m (plural harakiris)

1. Alternative spelling of haraquiri

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:harakiri.

harakiri m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of haraquiri

From Japanese 腹切り.

harakiri c or n

1. hara-kiri

Borrowed from Japanese 腹切.

harakiri

1. hara-kiri