miso

miso

See also: miśo, misó, and miso-

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 味噌(みそ) (miso).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmisoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːsəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːsəʊ

Noun

miso (usually uncountable, plural misos)

1. A thick paste made by fermentation of soybeans with the mold Aspergillus oryzae, used in making soups and sauces.
   • 2018 July 19, Zoe Williams, “Can ditching meat and dairy open up new taste sensations? My week as a foodie vegan”, in The Guardian‎:

     Substances float around each other until you crush them all with a blender. Add a bit of white miso, lemon juice, truffle oil, chives: survey your wreckage, which will be the wrong colour (cream with a hint of grey) and the wrong consistency (gluey).

Derived terms

• miso soup

Translations

thick paste for making soup

Arabic: مِيسُو‎ m (mīsū) Chinese: Cantonese: 味噌 (mei6 cang1) Mandarin: 味噌 (zh) (wèizēng) Czech: miso n Finnish: miso (fi) French: miso (fr) m German: Miso (de) n Hindi: मिसो (miso) Icelandic: mísó n Italian: miso m Japanese: 味噌 (ja) (みそ, miso) Korean: 미소 (ko) (miso) Marathi: मिसो (miso) Portuguese: missô (pt) Russian: ми́со (ru) n (míso) Spanish: miso (es) m Swedish: miso c Tagalog: miso Thai: มิโซะ (mísó)

Anagrams

• IMOs, Isom, MOIs, OISM, Simo, omis

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Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 味噌(みそ) (miso).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪso]

Noun

miso n

1. miso

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 味噌(みそ) (miso).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiso/, [ˈmis̠o̞]
• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification^(key): mi‧so

Noun

miso

1. miso

Declension

Inflection of miso (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		miso	misot
genitive		mison	misojen
partitive		misoa	misoja
illative		misoon	misoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		miso	misot
accusative	nom.	miso	misot
	gen.	mison
genitive		mison	misojen
partitive		misoa	misoja
inessive		misossa	misoissa
elative		misosta	misoista
illative		misoon	misoihin
adessive		misolla	misoilla
ablative		misolta	misoilta
allative		misolle	misoille
essive		misona	misoina
translative		misoksi	misoiksi
instructive		—	misoin
abessive		misotta	misoitta
comitative		—	misoineen

Possessive forms of miso (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	misoni	misomme
2nd person	misosi	misonne
3rd person	misonsa

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 味噌(みそ) (miso).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.zo/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

miso m (plural misos)

1. miso

Further reading

• “miso”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 味噌(みそ) (miso).

Noun

miso m (invariable)

1. miso

Anagrams

• -ismo, simo, somi

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.sɔ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -isɔ
• Syllabification: mi‧so

Noun

miso f

1. vocative singular of misa

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Spanish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese 味噌(みそ) (miso).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiso/ [ˈmi.so]
• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: mi‧so

Noun

miso m (uncountable)

1. miso

Etymology 2

From misar.

Verb

miso

1. first-person singular present indicative of misar

Further reading

• “miso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• miso on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es