different between seppuku vs suicide

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (seppuku), from Middle Chinese ? (t?set, “to cut”) +? ? (pjuwk, “belly”). Compare Cantonese ?? (tsit-fuk) and Mandarin ?? (qi?fù).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??pu?ku?/
• (General American) enPR: s?p?o?o-ko?o('), s?p??-, s?-po?o?-, s?-po?o?-, IPA^(key): /?s?pu(?)ku/, /?s?p?-/, /s??pu-/, /s??pu-/
• Hyphenation: sep?pu?ku

Noun

seppuku (countable and uncountable, plural seppukus or seppuku)

1. A form of ritual suicide by disembowelment using a blade, practiced by Japanese samurai, especially to rid oneself of shame, as a means of protest or, formerly, as a method of capital punishment.

Usage notes

• As with suicide, the usual verb used with seppuku is commit.

Synonyms

• hara-kiri

Translations

See also

• bushido
• hara-kiri
• kamikaze
• suicide

Anagrams

• pukes up

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??.

Noun

seppuku

1. seppuku
   • 1997, Erik Østerud, Den Optiske Fordring: Pejlinger I Den Visuelle Kultur Omkring Henrik Ibsens Forfatterskab

     På grund af dette lovbrud beordrer shogunen Hangan til at begå seppuku.

     Because of this crime, the shogun commands Hangan to commit seppuku.

   • 1967, K. Holst Andersen, Mit hus i Japan

     ... det blev ham tilladt at begå seppuku, eller harakiri, selvmord ved at stikke en kniv i underlivet.

     ... he was allowed to commit seppuku, or harakiri, suicide by stabbing a knife into the part of the body consisting of the hip and the scrotum.

Declension

No declined forms attested.

Synonyms

• harakiri

Dutch

Alternative forms

• seppoekoe (rare)

Etymology

Borrowing from Japanese ??.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??pu.ku/
• Hyphenation: sep?pu?ku
• Rhymes: -uku

Noun

seppuku m (uncountable)

1. seppuku

   Synonym: harakiri

Japanese

Romanization

seppuku

1. R?maji transcription of ????

Polish

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (???? (seppuku)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?p?pu.ku/

Noun

seppuku n

1. seppuku

Declension

Indeclinable.

Further reading

• seppuku in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

seppuku m (plural seppukus)

1. seppuku (ritual Japanese suicide by disembowelment)

English

Etymology

1651, New Latin coinage (probably originating in English) su?c?dium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s(j)u???sa?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?su??sa?d/
• Hyphenation: su?i?cide

Noun

suicide (countable and uncountable, plural suicides)

1. (uncountable) Intentional killing of oneself.

   Synonyms: self-killing, self-murder, self-slaughter, self-blood, self-slaying

   • 1904, Harold MacGrath, The Man On The Box, ch. 22:

     The cowardice of suicide was abhorrent to him.
2. (countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.
   • 1919, Edgar Wallace, The Secret House, ch. 14:

     There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard.

   • 1999, Philip H. Melling, Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion, Edinburgh University Press, ?ISBN, page 192:

     In this way the Heaven’s Gate community were not only escaping the threat of ‘global destruction’, they were hurling themselves directly into ‘the lap of God’, using their suicide as a way of ‘bridging the chasm’ between an earthly world which had no future and ‘a thousand years of unmitigated peace’.

3. (countable) A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.
   • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, ch. 95:

     "I remember one suicide," she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames."

4. (figuratively) An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death is not the aim of the action.
   • 1959, Everett Dirksen, in the Congressional Record, Feb. 9, page 2100:^[2]

     […] I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

   • 2000, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, The Ice Limit ?ISBN:

     “Mr. Glinn,” said Britton, “it's suicide to take a huge ship like this past the Ice Limit. Especially in this weather.”
5. (countable, US, slang) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.

   Synonyms: graveyard, swamp water

   • 1994, Christopher Buckley, Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California, University of Nevada Press, ?ISBN, page 34:

     You could sit at a corner and order your Suicide, and one of two twin brothers who worked there would hold an old-fashioned soda glass, a heavy tall V-shaped one with a round foot at the bottom, and go down the line with one shot of everything—cherry, lemon, Coke, and chocolate syrups—before adding soda water.

   • 2000, Mark Pendergrast, For God, Country and Coca-Cola, Basic Books, ?ISBN, page 15:

     Using Coca-Cola as a base, a suicide called for the addition of every other flavor available.

6. A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
7. (countable) A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.

   The coach makes us run suicides at the end of each basketball practice.

8. A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
9. (attributive) pertaining to a suicide bombing; as suicide belt, suicide vest

Usage notes

• See usage note at commit suicide.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:kill

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• (children's game): dodgeball, tag

Verb

suicide (third-person singular simple present suicides, present participle suiciding, simple past and past participle suicided)

1. (intransitive) To kill oneself intentionally.
   • 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, ch. 11:

     "Her husband suicided three years ago. Just like a man!"

   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, page 136:

     Seems a lady poet suicided at Verringer's ranch in Sepulveda canyon one time.

2. (transitive) To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide (now especially as part of a conspiracy).
   • 1898 October 29, in Punch, or the London charivari, page 196:

     Have bought The Shanghai Chopsticks. Proprietor at first refused to sell, but when I ordered the boiling oil he became more reasonable. Editor reports that circulation is not what it ought to be. […] Will publish proclaimation, "Any person found not in possession of The Shanghai Chopsticks (current number) will be suicided."
3. To self-destruct.

Synonyms

• autodarwinate, top oneself, commit suicide, do oneself in, self-kill
• (to put to death): see kill, murder, disappear
• See also Thesaurus:kill

Adjective

suicide (not comparable)

1. Relating to suicide.

Translations

See also

• hara-kiri
• kamikaze
• seppuku

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?i.sid/
• Homophones: suicident, suicides

Etymology 1

Before the 1700s called homicide de soi-même; see above.

Noun

suicide m (plural suicides)

1. suicide

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

suicide

1. inflection of suicider:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Adjective

suicide f pl

1. feminine plural of suicida

Noun

suicide f pl

1. plural of suicida

Anagrams

• sudicie

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English suicide.

Noun

suicide m (plural suicides)

1. (Jersey) suicide

Portuguese

Verb

suicide

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of suicidar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of suicidar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of suicidar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of suicidar

Spanish

Verb

suicide

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of suicidar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of suicidar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of suicidar.