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Borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku), from Middle Chinese 俳 (bˠɛi, “paralleled [writing]”) + 句 (kɨoH, “line”).
haiku (plural haiku or haikus)
- 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, “A Project Documents Inauguration Day, in Washington and Across the Globe”, in New York Times[2]:
Some of the results resemble haikus.
- 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.
Japanese poem of a specific form
- Arabic: هَايْكُو m (haykū)
- Chinese:
- Danish: haiku n or c
- Esperanto: hajko
- Finnish: haiku (fi)
- French: haïku (fr) m
- Georgian: ჰაიკუ (haiḳu)
- German: Haiku (de) n
- Gujarati: હાઇકુ (hāiku), સત્તરાક્ષરી (sattarākṣarī)
- Hebrew: הַיְקוּ / הייקו m or f (haykú)
- Hindi: हाइकु m (hāiku)
- Icelandic: hæka f
- Ido: haiko
- Indonesian: haiku (id)
- Japanese: 俳句 (ja) (はいく, haiku)
- Korean: 하이쿠 (haiku)
- Lithuanian: haiku m
- Malay: haiku (ms)
- Marathi: हाइकु f (hāiku)
- Norwegian: haiku m
- Polish: haiku (pl) n
- Portuguese: haiku (pt) m, haicai (pt) m
- Russian: ха́йку (ru) n (xájku), хо́кку (ru) n (xókku)
- Spanish: haiku (es) m, haikú (es) m
- Swedish: haiku (sv) c
- Tagalog: hayku
- Turkish: haiku
- Ukrainian: ха́йку (uk) n (xájku)
poem of similar structure
- Arabic: هَايْكُو m (haykū)
- Chinese:
- Danish: haiku n or c
- Esperanto: hajko
- Finnish: haiku (fi)
- French: haïku (fr) m
- Georgian: ჰაიკუ (haiḳu)
- German: Haiku (de) n
- Hindi: हाइकु m (hāiku)
- Icelandic: hæka f
- Indonesian: haiku (id)
- Japanese: 俳句 (ja) (はいく, haiku)
- Korean: 하이쿠 (haiku)
- Malay: haiku (ms)
- Marathi: हाइकु f (hāiku)
- Norwegian: haiku m
- Portuguese: haiku (pt) m, haicai (pt) m
- Russian: ха́йку (ru) n (xájku), хо́кку (ru) n (xókku)
- senryū: a short humorous poem similar to the haiku
haiku
- a haiku
From English haiku, from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku), from Middle Chinese 俳 (bˠɛi, “paralleled [writing]”) + 句 (kɨoH, “line”).
haiku
- a haiku
From dialectal haika + -u, from Proto-Finnic *haika, from Proto-Finno-Permic *šajka; cognates include Estonian haige (~ haikea) and Lule Sami suoikē.
haiku
- (usually in the plural) puff, whiff (act of inhaling tobacco smoke)
- 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.
- (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.
- “1. haiku”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
Borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku).
haiku
- A haiku (type of Japanese poem; any poem written in haiku style).
- “2. haiku”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
haiku m (plural haikus)
- Alternative spelling of haïku
haiku on Hungarian Wikipedia
From Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku).
haiku (plural haikuk)
- haiku (a Japanese form of poetry consisting of seventeen syllables: five for the first line, seven for the second, and five for the third)
Borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku), from Middle Chinese 俳 (bˠɛi, “paralleled [writing]”) + 句 (kɨoH, “line”).
haiku (plural haiku-haiku)
- haiku.
- “haiku” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku).
haiku m (invariable)
haiku
Ultimately borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku).
haiku m or n (definite singular haikuen or haikuet, indefinite plural haiku, definite plural haikuene)
- (poetry) a haiku
1999 May 10, Klassekampen, page 15:
Det opprinnelige haikuet er japansk
- The original haiku is Japanese
Ultimately borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku).
haiku m or n (definite singular haikuen or haikuet, indefinite plural haikuar or haiku, definite plural haikuane or haikua)
- (poetry) a haiku
2000 April 3, Klassekampen, page 14:
der finst ikkje så mange ord i eit haiku
- there aren't that many words in a haiku
1998, Hadle Oftedal Andersen, editor, Poesiens pil, [Oslo]: Cappelen, page 170:
Paal-Helge Haugen sette om japanske haikuar til norsk[.]
- Paal-Helge Haugen translated Japanese haikus into Norwegian.

Borrowed from Japanese 俳句.[1][2]
haiku n (indeclinable)
- (poetry) haiku (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)
- (poetry) haiku (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)
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
haiku m inan
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “haiku”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “haiku”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language][1] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
haiku m (plural haikus)
haiku n (plural haikuuri)
Borrowed from English haiku, from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku).
haiku m (plural haikus)
- “haiku”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10