Definitions For Kombu

Noun

KOMBU (uncountable) edible, edible kelp, , a type of brown#adjective, brown seaweed (from the class#noun, class phaeophyceae) used in east asian cuisine.

Alternative forms

konbu

Hypernyms

kelp tangle, id=seaweed

Related terms

kombucha

Translations

Breton: kombu Catalan: kombu Dutch: kombu French: konbu, m German: Kombu Icelandic: kombu Indonesian: kombu Italian: kombu Japanese: 昆布, tr=こんぶ, konbu Malay: kombu Persian: کونبو Polish: kombu Portuguese: kombu Russian: комбу Slovak: konbu Spanish: kombu Thai: คมบุ Turkish: kombu

Etymology

A modified borrowing from {{bor, en, ja, 昆布, tr=こんぶ, konbu}}.Compare {{R:OED Online, pos=n, id=104314, date=1933, nodot=yes}}; {{R:Lexico}}