Etymology

kimbap

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Today it means: A Korean dish of steamed white rice and other ingredients rolled in sheets of dried laver seaweed and served in bite-size slices. Full definition →

Korean 김밥
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  1. Korean · borrowed from김밥
  2. English todaykimbap

Borrowed from Korean 김밥 (gimbap), from 김 (gim, “a type of seaweed”) + 밥 (bap, “rice”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.