hara-kiri

Significado (Inglés)

  1. (uncountable) 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.
  2. (uncountable) Suicide or any suicidal action.
  3. (broadly, figuratively, uncountable) An act against one's own interests.

Traducciones

seppuku

αυτοκτονία

هَارَا كِيرِي

harakiri

Selbstentleibung

Selbstvernichtung

αυτοχειρία

Frecuencia

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Etimología (Inglés)

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

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