ラーメン

Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative spellings
拉麺
老麺 (obsolete)
柳麺 (obsolete)

Borrowed from Mandarin 拉麵／拉面 (lāmiàn, literally “pulled noodles”).[1][2][3]

First cited to a text from 1930.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Kyoto) ラ​ーメン [ráꜜàmèǹ] (Kōki)[4]

Noun

ラーメン or らーめん or らあめん • (rāmen) 

  1. ramen, a type of Chinese-style noodle dish
Synonyms
Descendants
  • → English: ramen
  • → Korean: 라면 (ramyeon)
  • → Russian: рамэн (ramɛn)
  • → Tagalog: ramen
  • → Thai: ราเม็ง (raa-meng)

Etymology 2

From German Rahmen (“frame”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ラーメン • (rāmen) 

  1. (architecture, construction) rigid frame
Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (1995), 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 “ラー‐メン 【拉麺・柳麺】”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎[1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2000-2002, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here
  5. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  6. ^ “ラーメン”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎[2] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2000-2002, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here
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