Etymology

hibachi

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Today it means: A portable brazier, powered by charcoal, used for cooking. Full definition →

Japanese 火鉢
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from火鉢“a charcoal-powered heating brazier”
  2. English todayhibachi

c. 1870, from Japanese 火鉢 (hibachi, “a charcoal-powered heating brazier”, literally “fire pot”).

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