The Japanese word for food is
食べ物
たべもの - tabemono
Japanese Definition
| food | |
| 1. 名詞. 食べ物、食物、食料 |
Translations for food and their definitions
| 食べ物 | |
| 1. n. food in general; provisions | |
| 食べ物は十分ある - there is enough food | |
| 2. n. a specific food | |
| この食べ物はどうやって調理しますか。 - How do you prepare this food / this dish? | |
| 3. n. one's diet, what one eats. | |
| 食べ物にはうるさい - to be particular or finicky about one's diet |
| 食物 | |
| 1. n. food, foodstuff | |
| 2. n. (more broadly) food and drink | |
| 3. n. (rare) food, foodstuff | |
| 4. n. Usage: The shokumotsu reading is more common. | |
| 5. n. (rare) food, foodstuff | |
| 6. n. Usage: The shokumotsu reading is more common. The shokubutsu reading is generally avoided, due to the potential for confusion with the more-common term 植物. | |
| 7. n. 食べ物: food in general; a specific food; one's diet | |
| See 食べ物 for more detail. | |
| 8. n. 食い物: food; a sexual partner; a patsy, someone tricked into being used for someone else's gain | |
| See 食い物 for more detail. | |
| 9. v. 食い物: to cook, to prepare food | |
| See 食い物 for more detail. | |
| 10. n. (rare possibly, obsolete) 食らい物: food and beverage | |
| 11. n. (rare possibly, obsolete) 食み物: food; more specifically, fodder or feed for animals | |
| 12. n. (rare possibly, obsolete, formal, honorific) 食し物: (rare) food and beverage |
| 食料 | |
| 1. n. food | |
| 食料や水が不足している。 - We are short of food and water. |
| 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 |
| 食品 | |
| 1. n. food, foodstuff |
| 餌 | |
| 1. n. animal food, feed | |
| 犬 に 毎日 餌 を 上げて 下さい。 - Please feed the dog every day. | |
| 2. n. bait | |
| 3. n. animal food, feed | |
| 4. n. bait |
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