different between harakiri vs hara-kiri

English

Noun

harakiri (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of hara-kiri

Anagrams

• hari-kari, harikari

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??.

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, ...

Declension

Synonyms

• seppuku

Dutch

Alternative forms

• hara-kiri (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?.ra??ki.ri/
• Hyphenation: ha?ra?ki?ri

Noun

harakiri m (plural harakiri's)

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

   Synonym: seppuku

Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese ???.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?r?kiri/, [?h?r??kiri]
• Rhymes: -iri
• Syllabification: ha?ra?ki?ri

Noun

harakiri

1. hara-kiri, seppuku

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowing from Japanese ??? (harakiri), ultimately from ? (hara, “belly”) + ?? (kiru, “to cut”).

Noun

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.

See also

• bushido
• kamikaze

Japanese

Romanization

harakiri

1. R?maji transcription of ????

Polish

Etymology

From Japanese ???.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xa.ra?k?i.r?i/

Noun

harakiri n

1. hara-kiri

Declension

Indeclinable.

Further reading

• 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

Swedish

Etymology

From Japanese ???.

Noun

harakiri c or n

1. hara-kiri

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??.

Noun

harakiri

1. hara-kiri

English

Alternative forms

• harakiri
• hari-kari (nonstandard)
• harikari (nonstandard)
• harikiri

Etymology

Borrowing from Japanese ??? (harakiri), ultimately from ? (hara, “belly”) + ?? (kiru, “to cut”).

Noun

hara-kiri (uncountable)

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.
   • 1899, William George Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, page 231

     On the downfall of his power in 1867 he was urged by one of his Council to save the honour of his family by a voluntary suicide. He flatly refused to do so and left the room, whereupon his faithful adviser retired to another part of the castle and solemnly performed the hara-kiri.

2. Suicide or any suicidal action.
3. (by extension, figuratively) An act against one's own interests.
   • 1982–1983, Paul Johnson, Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties,^[1] revised and printed as […] to the Nineties, HarperCollins (2001), ?ISBN, page 393:

     Regarded logically, therefore, Japan’s decision to go to war made no sense. It was hara-kiri.

   • 1987, in The Economist, Volume 304, Issues 7505–7513,^[2] page 1:

     They are haunted by the spectre of the 1984 election, when Mr Walter Mondale committed hara-kiri by acknowledging the need to raise taxes if America were to get its economy straight.

   • 2008 April 5, Anurag Prasad, “Virgin Territory”, in Outlook Business, Volume 3, Number 7, page 50:

     But with GSM players lobbying hard for more spectrum, taking MVNOs on board now would be hara-kiri.

Synonyms

• (ceremonial suicide by ripping open the abdomen): seppuku

Derived terms

• commit hara-kiri
• political hara-kiri

Translations

See also

• bushido
• kamikaze
• seppuku
• suicide

Anagrams

• hari-kari, harikari

Dutch

Noun

hara-kiri m (plural hara-kiri's)

1. Archaic spelling of harakiri.

French

Alternative forms

• harakiri

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /a.?a.ki.?i/
• Rhymes: -i
• Homophones: harakiri, harakiris, hara-kiris

Noun

hara-kiri m (plural hara-kiris)

1. hara-kiri (suicide by ripping open the stomach)

See also

• éventrement
• éventrer

Further reading

• “hara-kiri” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Noun

hara-kiri m (plural hara-kiris)

1. Alternative spelling of haraquiri