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語源

Borrowed from Japanese 折(お)り紙(がみ) (origami), from 折(お)り (ori, “to fold”) + 紙(かみ) (kami, “paper”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌɒɹɪˈɡɑːmi/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA: /ˌɔɹɪˈɡɑːmɪj/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌoɹəˈɡɑmi/, [ˌoɹɪ̈ˈɡɑmi]
• (Australian) IPA: /ˌɔɹɪˈɡɐːmi/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˌɒɹəˈɡɐːmi/, [ˌɔ̟ɹəˈɡɐːmi]
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˌɔɹɪˈɡame/, /-mɪ/, /-mi/
• 韻: -ɑːmi

名詞

origami (countable and uncountable, plural origamis)

1. (uncountable) The Japanese art of paper folding.
   • 2022, “Peace Spheres: Ecological Relationship of Self, Others, and the World”, in Building Positive Peace‎, archived from the original on 27 October 2025, page 1:

     JongRak was a 10-year-old boy whose hands, eyes, and questions were all about origami: “Teacher, do you know how to fold a jumping frog?” With his deft little hands, he would teach me and the class how to fold a sunflower and a cicada. At some point, every kid’s little hands and pockets were filled with tiny origami models.

2. (countable) A piece of art made by folding paper.
   • 1993, Communication arts:

     The production notes are folded like the funny origamis that I made in grammar school (only I used to write boy's names inside each section).

3. (uncountable) The materials science technology that applies the art of origami to products.
4. (uncountable) The materials science that studies origami applications in various material.
5. (uncountable) The mathematics field that studies folding two-dimensional surfaces into three-dimensional structures, using folds and creases akin to those in the art of origami.

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origami (third-person singular simple present origamis, present participle origamiing, simple past and past participle origamied)

1. (transitive) To construct by means of decorative paper folding.

   He snatched my serviette and swiftly origamied a swan.