なんばん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of なんばん – see the following entry.

【南蛮】 [noun] (derogatory, archaic) a foreigner from Portugal or Spain; more broadly, a westerner in general [noun] (in Japan from the mid-1400s) the inhabitants of Southeast Asia, particularly the islands of Luzon and Java in the modern-day Philippines and Indonesia [noun] (in ancient China) the non-Chinese ethnic groups to China's south [noun] (in the ancient Baekje kingdom of the Korean peninsula) the island of Jeju to the south [noun] a type of movement in kabuki, bunraku, and Japanese dance where the performer mirrors left and right (based on a common myth that westerners walked differently somehow) [noun] Short for 南蛮辛子 (nanban-garashi): [noun] Short for 南蛮黍 (nanban kibi): [noun] a general term for styles of cooking that use leeks, chilis, and oil [noun] Short for 南蛮煮 (nanban ni): a soup or stew dish cooked with leeks [noun] Short for 南蛮船 (nanbansen): a sailing ship from Spain or Portugal (in the Muromachi and Edo periods) [prefix] from the west, from Europe

(This term, なんばん (nanban), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)