origami

Borrowed from Japanese 折り紙 (おりがみ, origami), from 折り (おり, ori, “to fold”) + 紙 (かみ, kami, “paper”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɒɹɪˈɡɑːmɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɔɹəˈɡɑmi/, [ˌɔɹɪ̈ˈɡɑmi]
• Rhymes: -ɑːmi

origami (countable and uncountable, plural origamis)

1. (uncountable) The Japanese art of paper folding.
2. (countable) A piece of art made by folding paper.
   • 1993, Communication arts:

     The production notes are folded like the funny origamis that I made in grammar school (only I used to write boy's names inside each section).

3. (uncountable) The materials science technology that applies the art of origami to products.
4. (uncountable) The materials science that studies origami applications in various material.
5. (uncountable) The mathematics field that studies folding 2-d surfaces into 3-d structures, using construct folds and creases akin to that from the art of origami.

• chiyogami
• kirigami

Borrowed from Japanese 折り紙 (おりがみ, origami).

• IPA^(key): /ˈoriɡɑmi/, [ˈo̞riɡɑmi]
• Hyphenation: o‧ri‧ga‧mi

origami

1. origami

Borrowed from Japanese 折り紙 (おりがみ, origami), from 折り (おり, ori, “to fold”) + 紙 (かみ, kami, “paper”).

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁi.ɡa.mi/
• Rhymes: -i

origami m (plural origamis)

1. (uncountable) origami (the Japanese art of paper folding)
2. (countable) origami (piece of art made by folding paper)

Borrowed from Japanese 折り紙 (おりがみ, origami), from 折り (おり, ori, “to fold”) + 紙 (かみ, kami, “paper”).

IPA^(key): /ˈɔːrɪkamɪ/

origami n (no plural)

1. origami (the Japanese art of paper folding)

Borrowed from Japanese 折り紙 (おりがみ, origami), from 折り (おり, ori, “to fold”) + 紙 (かみ, kami, “paper”). The kami changes to gami as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

• IPA^(key): /o.ri.ɡa.mi/
• Hyphenation: o‧ri‧ga‧mi

origami (plural origami-origami, first-person possessive origamiku, second-person possessive origamimu, third-person possessive origaminya)

1. origami (the Japanese art of paper folding).

Borrowed from Japanese 折り紙 (おりがみ, origami), from 折り (おり, ori, “to fold”) + 紙 (かみ, kami, “paper”).

• IPA^(key): /oriˈɡa.mi/, [oriˈɡäːmi], (rare) /oˈri.ɡa.mi/, [oˈriːɡämi]
• Hyphenation: o‧ri‧gà‧mi, rare: o‧rì‧ga‧mi

origami m (invariable)

1. (uncountable) origami (the Japanese art of paper folding)
2. (countable) origami (piece of art made by folding paper)

• origamista

origami

1. Rōmaji transcription of おりがみ

Borrowed from Japanese 折り紙 (おりがみ, origami), from 折り (おり, ori, “to fold”) + 紙 (かみ, kami, “paper”).

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.rʲiˈɡa.mʲi/

origami n (indeclinable)

1. origami

• origami in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Japanese 折り紙 (おりがみ, origami), from 折り (おり, ori, “to fold”) + 紙 (かみ, kami, “paper”).

• IPA^(key): /oɾiˈɡami/, [oɾiˈɣami]

origami m (plural origamis)

1. (chiefly uncountable) origami (the Japanese art of paper folding)

   Synonym: papiroflexia

• pajarita