Etymology

korokke

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Today it means: A Japanese dish of chopped meat, seafood, or vegetables with mashed potato or white sauce, rolled in flour, eggs, and breadcrumbs, then deep-fried. Full definition →

Japanese コロッケ ← French croquette
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The story

  1. French · derived fromcroquette
  2. Japanese · borrowed fromコロッケ
  3. English todaykorokke

From Japanese コロッケ (korokke), ultimately from French croquette. Doublet of croquette and kroket.

Words from the same roots

Frenchcroquette all →

croquette

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.