rice wine

English

Noun

rice wine (countable and uncountable, plural rice wines)

1. An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to grape wine.

Synonyms

• sake (inexact)

Hyponyms

• huangjiu, mijiu (Chinese varieties); pinjopo (Tibetan); sake (Japanese variety)

Translations

alcoholic drink brewed from rice

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 米酒 (mai⁵ zau²)

  Mandarin: 黃酒／黄酒 (zh) (huángjiǔ), 米酒 (zh) (mǐjiǔ)

• Danish: risvin c
• Dutch: rijstwijn (nl) m
• Estonian: riisivein
• Finnish: riisiviini (fi)
• French: vin de riz (fr) m
• German: Reiswein (de) m
• Japanese: ライスワイン (raisuwain), (Japanese style) 日本酒 (ja) (にほんしゅ, nihonshu), 清酒 (ja) (せいしゅ, seishu)
• Khmer: ស្រាស (sraa sɑɑ)
• Korean: 청주(清酒) (cheongju), 미주(米酒) (ko) (miju)
• Latvian: rīsu vīns m
• Maranao: basi'
• Russian: ри́совое вино́ n (rísovoje vinó)
• Swedish: risvin (sv) n
• Tagalog: alak-bigas, siyoktong