English - Turkish
Definition of harakiri in English Turkish dictionary
- {i} harakiri
- (isim) harakiri
Turkish - Turkish
Definition of harakiri in Turkish Turkish dictionary
- Karnını bıçakla deşme yoluyla kendini öldürme
- Japonlarda karnını bıçakla deşme yoluyla kendini öldürme
- seppuku
English - English
Definition of harakiri in English English dictionary
- {i} honorable suicide through self-disembowelment (ceremonial suicide practiced by the Japanese samurai when disgraced or under a death sentence)
- Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; - - also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari
- alternative spelling of hara-kiri
- a way of killing yourself by cutting open your stomach, used in the past in Japan to avoid losing honour
- ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by warriors in the traditional Japanese society
- committed harakiri
- committed suicide in the manner of the Japanese warriors
Related Terms
Turkish - English
Definition of harakiri in Turkish English dictionary
- harakiri
- happy dispatch
- hara-kiri
- harakiri yapmak
- to commit hara-kiri