The Japanese word for rice is
米
こめ - kome
Japanese Definition
| rice | |
| 1. 名詞. 米。ご飯。 | |
| 2. 名詞. 稲。 | |
| 3. 動詞. ……を米粒ほどの大きさに圧搾する。 | |
| 4. 動詞. ……をライサーにかける。 |
Translations for rice and their definitions
| 稲 | |
| 1. n. ja of prefixal bound form |
| 米 | |
| 1. n. rice (gloss-lite, husked grains of the Asian rice plant, Oryza sativa), one of the w, Five Grains, five grains | |
| (hyper, ja, 五穀, tr=gokoku) | |
| 2. n. the Asian rice plant, Oryza sativa | |
| 3. n. rice (gloss-lite, husked grains of the Asian rice plant, Oryza sativa) | |
| 4. n. (colloquial) an eighty-eight-year-old | |
| 5. n. (colloquial) rice (gloss-lite, husked grains of the rice plant) | |
| 6. n. (rare sp, ja, メートル, tr=mētoru): metre gloss-lite, SI unit of length | |
| 7. n. (rare sp, ja, メーター, tr=mētā): meter (a device or implement used for measurement) | |
| 8. affix. rice |
| ご飯 | |
| 1. n. alternative spelling of ja 御飯 : cooked rice; a meal of any sort |
| 飯 | |
| 1. n. cooked grains, especially cooked rice | |
| 2. n. (informal) a meal | |
| 飯を食う - eat a meal | |
| 3. n. Usage: This is an informal way to refer to food, and 食う is a correspondingly informal way to say "eat". | |
| 4. n. (Tsugaru) cooked rice | |
| 5. n. (childish) (alt form, ja, 飯#Etymology 5, tr=manma) | |
| 6. n. (childish) cooked rice |
| ライス | |
| 1. n. rice, more specifically cooked rice (seeds used as food) |
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