Etymology

umeboshi

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Today it means: Pickled ume fruits. Full definition →

Japanese 梅干
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from梅干“dried plum”
  2. English todayumeboshi

From Japanese 梅干 (umeboshi, “dried plum”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.