Etymology

gyudon

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Today it means: A Japanese dish of rice topped with beef and onion simmered in a mildly sweet sauce. Full definition →

Japanese 牛丼
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  1. Japanese · borrowed from牛丼
  2. English todaygyudon

From Japanese 牛丼 (literally “beef bowl”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.