お好み焼き

Japanese

kanjitab
Definitions
  • okonomiyaki: a Japanese style of savoury pan-pan-fried thick pancake including a mixture of vegetables and beef, pork, or seafood

Etymology

Compound from Japanese お (honorific prefix, noon, grip, midday, daytime, honorific marker, handful, small, polite prefix, grasp) + Japanese 好み (preference)+ Japanese 連用形 (meeting, house, counselor, store, gathering, building)+ Japanese continuative or stem form of verb m + Japanese 好む konomu, “to like, to prefer” + Japanese 焼き (roasting, baking, burned, fired)+ Japanese 連用形 (meeting, house, counselor, store, gathering, building)+ Japanese continuative or stem form of verb m + Japanese 焼く yaku, “to grill, to fry, to roast”.

Origin

Japanese

焼く yaku, “to grill, to fry, to roast”

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