Etymology

maguro

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Today it means: Tuna meat, eaten raw as sushi or sashimi. Full definition →

Japanese 鮪
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from鮪“tuna”
  2. English todaymaguro

Late 19th century, borrowed from Japanese 鮪 (まぐろ, maguro, “tuna”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.