Seppuku

//sɛˈpuː.kuː//

Synonyms for "seppuku" (8 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (2)

Noun(1 words)

Related words (4)

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More general

3 entries

Synonyms

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Related terms

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is a

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related to

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Translations

25 translations across 19 languages.

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Arabic

2 entries
  • سِيبُّوكُو noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)
  • هَارَا كِيرِي noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Armenian

3 entries
  • խարակիրի noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)
  • հարակիրի noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)
  • սեպպուկու noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 切腹 noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Dutch

1 entries
  • seppuku noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • harakiro noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Finnish

1 entries
  • harakiri noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

German

1 entries
  • Seppuku noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Hindi

1 entries
  • सेप्पुकू noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Japanese

2 entries
  • 切腹 noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)
  • 腹切り noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Korean

1 entries
  • 할복 noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Marathi

1 entries
  • सेप्पुकु noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Norwegian

1 entries
  • seppuku noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Polish

1 entries
  • seppuku noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • seppuku noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Russian

2 entries
  • сэппу́ку noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)
  • хараки́ри noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Swedish

1 entries
  • seppuku noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • seppuku noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Urdu

1 entries
  • سیپکو noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Vietnamese

2 entries
  • seppuku noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)
  • thiết phúc noun (ritual suicide by disembowelment)

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I want you to commit seppuku.

Source: tatoeba (792601)

“I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” he said during one online news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?” […] At a panel hosted by Globis, a Japanese graduate business school, Dr. Narita told the audience that “if this can become a Japanese society where people like you all commit seppuku one after another, it wouldn’t be just a social security policy but it would be the best ‘Cool Japan’ policy.”

Source: wiktionary

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