Etymology

meibutsu

M3E1I1B3U1T1S1U1

Today it means: A product famously associated with a particular region of Japan, often purchased as a gift or souvenir. Full definition →

Japanese 名物
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Japanese · derived from名物“speciality”
  2. English todaymeibutsu

From Japanese 名物 (“speciality”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.