Etymology

donburi

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Today it means: A Japanese rice bowl dish consisting of fish, meat, vegetables or other ingredients served together over rice. Full definition →

Japanese 丼
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from丼“a large helping of rice covered in meat, fish, and/or vegetables, all served in one big bowl”
  2. English todaydonburi

Borrowed from Japanese 丼 (donburi, “a large helping of rice covered in meat, fish, and/or vegetables, all served in one big bowl”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.