Etymology

menpachi

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Japanese めんぱち
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  1. Japanese · borrowed fromめんぱち
  2. English todaymenpachi

Borrowed from Japanese めんぱち (menpachi), a dialectal word for the めだか (medaka).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.