edamame

edamame

See also: Edamame

English

Edamame

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 枝豆 (literally “stem beans”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛdəˈmɑːmeɪ/

Noun

edamame (uncountable)

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: зелена соя m (zelena soja) Chinese: Cantonese: 毛豆 (mou4 dau6-2) 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 n (edamáme) Korean: 풋콩 (ko) (putkong) Russian: эдама́ме (ru) n (edamáme) Spanish: edamame m Thai: ถั่วแระ

Further reading

• edamame on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Japanese

Romanization

edamame

1. Rōmaji transcription of えだまめ