The story
- Japanese · borrowed from結び“rice ball”
- English todaymusubi
From Japanese 結び (musubi, “rice ball”).
Words from the same roots
Japanese結び all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
musubi
Today it means: A ball of rice covered with nori (in Japanese cuisine, including in Hawaii), to which meat or salted or fermented vegetables are often added, differing from sushi in that the rice is not vinegared. Full definition →
Japanese 結び