Etymology

soba

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Today it means: A Japanese buckwheat noodle. Full definition →

Japanese 蕎麦
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  1. Japanese · borrowed from蕎麦
  2. English todaysoba

Borrowed from Japanese 蕎麦 (soba).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.