yakiniku

English

Alternative forms

• yaki-niku

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 焼肉 (yakiniku), from 焼き (yaki, “to grill, fry”) +‎ 肉 (niku, “meat”).

Noun

yakiniku (uncountable)

1. Meat grilled on a barbecue Japanese-style.

Further reading

• yakiniku on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Indonesian

Etymology

From Japanese 焼肉(やきにく) (yakiniku, literally “grilled meat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jakiˈniku]
• Hyphenation: ya‧ki‧ni‧ku

Noun

yakiniku (first-person possessive yakinikuku, second-person possessive yakinikumu, third-person possessive yakinikunya)

1. (cooking) yakiniku: a style of cooking bite-size meat (usually beef and offal) and vegetables on gridirons or griddles over a flame of wood charcoals carbonized by dry distillation (sumibi, 炭火) or a gas/electric grill.

Further reading

• “yakiniku” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

yakiniku

1. Rōmaji transcription of やきにく.