haiku

Borrowed from Japanese 俳句 (haiku), from Middle Chinese 俳 (bɛj, “paralleled [writing]”) + 句 (kjù, “line”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ.kuː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ.ku/, /haɪˈku/

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haiku (plural haiku or haikus)

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.
   • 2009, January 25, “Colin Moynihan”, in A Project Documents Inauguration Day, in Washington and Across the Globe‎:

     Some of the results resemble haikus.

2. 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

   five beats, then seven, then five

   ends as it began.

• hokku

• mathemaku (rare)
• pseudohaiku

• senryū: a short humorous poem similar to the haiku

• Ukiah

From Proto-Finno-Permic *šajka; cognates include haikea, Estonian haige and Lule Sami suoikē.

haiku

1. A puff, whiff (act of inhaling tobacco smoke); often used in plural in this sense.
2. A puff, whiff, puff of smoke, whiff of smoke (small quantity of smoke in the air).
   • Ilmassa on vähän haikua.

     There's a whiff of smoke in the air.

3. (poetic) smoke
   • Tänne ihminen katoaa huomaamattomaksi, kuin tuo nuotion mitätön haiku iltataivaalle.

     Here a man vanishes into nothingness, like that tiny strand of smoke from the campfire to the evening sky.

• savu, savut

Borrowed from Japanese 俳句 (haiku).

haiku

1. A haiku (type of Japanese poem; any poem written in haiku style).

• hauki, hiuka, kuhia, uhkia

Borrowed from Japanese 俳句 (はいく, haiku), from Middle Chinese 俳 (bɛj, “paralleled [writing]”) + 句 (kjù, “line”).

• IPA^(key): /hai.ku/
• Hyphenation: hai‧ku

haiku (plural haiku-haiku, first-person possessive haikuku, second-person possessive haikumu, third-person possessive haikunya)

1. haiku.

• “haiku” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Japanese.

• Rhymes: -u

haiku m (invariable)

1. haiku

haiku m (plural haikus)

1. (poetry) haiku (type of poem used in Japanese poetry)

• haikú

Borrowed from English haiku, from Japanese 俳句 (はいく, haiku).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaiku/, [ˈai̯ku]

haiku m (plural haikus)

1. haiku

• “haiku” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.