Wagyu - Wiktionary

English

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A filet of wagyu beef
English Wikipedia has an article on:wagyuWikipedia

Etymology

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From Japanese 和(わ)牛(ぎゅう) (wagyū), from Middle Chinese (MC hwa, “a gloss for (MC 'wa, “Japan”)”) + (MC ngjuw, “cow”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈwæɡ.juː/, /ˈwɑːɡ.juː/, (nonstandard) /ˈwæ.ɡuː/

Noun

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wagyu (countable and uncountable, plural wagyus or wagyu)

  1. (countable) Any of several Japanese breeds of cattle genetically predisposed to intense marbling and to producing a high percentage of oleaginous unsaturated fat.
    • 2009 January 19, Corey Mintz, “Susur and the City”, in Toronto Star‎[1]:Slices of wagyu beef come with spheres of root vegetables and mini-towers of polenta.
  2. Beef from such cattle.

Synonyms

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  • Kobe

Derived terms

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  • washugyu

Translations

[edit] breed of cattle
  • Arabic: Hijazi Arabic: واقيو m (wāgyu)
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 和牛 (héniú)
  • Esperanto: vagjuo
  • Japanese: 和牛 (wagyū)
  • Korean: 와규 (wagyu)
  • Russian: ва́гю (ru) f (vágju)

Indonesian

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:wagyuWikipedia id

Etymology

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Borrowed from Japanese 和(わ)牛(ぎゅう) (wagyū).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈwaɡ.ju]
  • Rhymes: -aɡju
  • Hyphenation: wag‧yu

Noun

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wagyu (plural wagyu-wagyu)

  1. wagyu

Further reading

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  • “wagyu”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Spanish

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Noun

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wagyu m (plural wagyus)

  1. wagyu

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