The story
- Japanese · derived from梅干し“dried plum”
- Dutch · derived frommebos
- English todaymebos
From Dutch mebos, from Japanese 梅干し (umeboshi, “dried plum”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
mebos
Today it means: A type of sweet snack food consisting of dried apricot made into a pulp and flavoured with salt and sugar. Full definition →
Dutch mebos ← Japanese 梅干し