sushi
/ˈsuːʃi/ · noun
Meaning
- A Japanese dish made of small portions of sticky white rice flavored with vinegar, usually wrapped in seaweed and filled or topped with fish, vegetables or meat.
- One of the portions from this dish.
- Raw fish, especially as a Japanese dish.
- To prepare (a food) as sushi.
- A person who typifies a mixture of Shiism and Sunnism
Etymology / origin
Borrowed from Japanese 寿司(すし) (sushi, “sushi (sour rice)”), ultimately from archaic conjugation 酸(す)し (sushi, “sour, vinegared”) of modern adjective 酸(す)い (sui, “sour, vinegared”).
- -(Japanese)→
- sushi (English)
- Relations: bor
Related words
Descendant words
- суши(Bulgarian) (bor)
- סושי(Hebrew) (bor)
- सुशी(Hindi) (bor)
- суши(Russian) (bor)
- суші(Ukrainian) (bor)
- swshi(Welsh) (bor)
- סושי(Yiddish) (bor)
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