Haiku

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Hawaiian Haʻikū. === Proper noun === Haiku A village in the census-designated place of Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii, United States. ==== Derived terms ==== Haiku-Pauwela ==== Translations ==== == German == === Alternative forms === Haikai, Hokku === Etymology === Borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku) from Middle Chinese 俳 (bɛj, “paralleled [writing]”) + 句 (kjù, “line”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhaɪ̯ku/ === Noun === Haiku n or m (strong, genitive Haikus or Haiku, plural Haikus or Haiku) haiku (Japanese poem of a specific form: 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables) haiku (poem in any language of the same form) ==== Hypernyms ==== Gedichtform Gedicht === Further reading === “Haiku” in Duden online