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- Japanese · borrowed from腹切り
- English todayhara-kiri
Borrowed from Japanese 腹切り (harakiri), ultimately from 腹 (hara, “belly”) + 切る (kiru, “to cut”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
hara-kiri
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
Japanese 腹切り