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Haiku

//haɪˈku// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village in the census-designated place of Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    A Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.

    "Some of the results resemble haikus."

  2. 2
    an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines wordnet
  3. 3
    A three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.

    "Haiku, a poem"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku), from Middle Chinese 俳 (beaj, “paralleled [writing]”) + 句 (kɨoᴴ, “line”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hawaiian Haʻikū.

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