edamame

See also: Edamame

English

Edamame

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 枝(えだ)豆(まめ) (edamame, literally “stem beans”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛdəˈmɑːmeɪ/

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Noun

edamame (countable and uncountable, plural edamames)

1. Fresh green soybeans boiled as a vegetable.
   • 2019, Karman Meyer, Eat to Sleep, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 81:

     When Americans started eating more sushi in the 1980s, edamame also became more popular. More than 95 percent of the edamame consumed in the US comes from China, but domestic production of the edible green soybean is on the rise.

Translations

green soybeans

• Bulgarian: зеле́на со́я m (zeléna sója)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 毛豆 (mou⁴ dau^6-2)

  Mandarin: 毛豆 (zh) n (máodòu)

• Finnish: edamame
• French: edamame (fr) m
• German: Edamame f pl
• Indonesian: edamame
• Italian: edamame m pl
• Japanese: 枝豆 (ja) (えだまめ, edamame)
• Korean: 풋콩 (ko) (putkong)
• Marathi: एदामामे (edāmāme)
• Russian: эдама́ме (ru) n (edamámɛ)
• Spanish: edamame m
• Thai: ถั่วแระ

Further reading

• edamame on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Indonesian

枝豆 (édamamé)

Etymology

From Japanese 枝豆 (edamame).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /edaˈma.me/
• Hyphenation: éda‧ma‧mé

Noun

édamamé (first-person possessive edamameku, second-person possessive edamamemu, third-person possessive edamamenya)

1. edamame.

Further reading

• “edamame” 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.

Japanese

Romanization

edamame

1. Rōmaji transcription of えだまめ