Etymology

naengmyeon

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Today it means: A Korean dish of long, thin hand-made noodles made from flour and starch from various ingredients. Full definition →

Korean 냉면(冷麵)
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The story

  1. Korean · borrowed from냉면(冷麵)
  2. English todaynaengmyeon

Borrowed from Korean 냉면(冷麵) (naengmyeon, literally “cold noodles”).

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