donabe

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noun

A clay pot for use over an open flame in Japanese cuisine, usually glazed on the inside and porous on the outside.

OriginJapanese 土鍋 →
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Meanings

noundonabe (plural donabes or donabe)

plural donabes

  1. A clay pot for use over an open flame in Japanese cuisine, usually glazed on the inside and porous on the outside.

    On a visit home, Takei Moore tasted rice cooked in a traditional donabe again and saw it all differently.

    2021 March 24, Tejal Rao, “The Joy of Cooking With a Donabe”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Origin

  1. Japanese土鍋
  2. Englishdonabe

From Japanese 土鍋.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

dabeno
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “donabe,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/donabe.

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