adzuki
English
Alternative forms
- adzuki bean
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 小豆 (azuki). In Japanese, it was historically pronounced /aduki/, but /du/ eventually transformed into /zu/, and was variously romanized as "dzu" and "zu".
Noun
adzuki (plural adzukis)
- Either the plant or the seed of the azuki bean
- 2003, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 9th ed. edition, →ISBN, page 289:
- Adzukis need 118 days to start bearing.
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Synonyms
- azuki
- adzuki bean
- azuki bean
Translations
azuki bean — see azuki bean
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
adzuki m (Cyrillic spelling адзуки)
- azuki bean
Synonyms
- azuki