umami
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Japanese 旨味, うまみ (umami), from 旨い (umai, “delicious”), which describes the quality of a pleasant, savory taste.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /uˈmɑːmi/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːmi
Noun
[edit]umami (uncountable)
- One of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats.
- Synonyms: savoriness, deliciousness, meatiness, brothiness
- Coordinate terms: bitterness, saltiness, sourness, sweetness
- 2000 January 28, Oliver Burkeman, “Things that make you go yum”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- Umami is the mysterious “fifth taste”—a flavour that has never seemed to fit into the existing categories of sweet, sour, salty and bitter. South-east Asian chefs have exploited it throughout history—it's an essential part of the taste of seaweed, among other things […]
- 2011, Caitlin Moran, How to be a Woman:
- But we are, of course, sweaty, fleshy lady-animals – all fur and umami.
- 2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, “The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel”, in Wired[2]:
- A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.
- 2019, Raquel Pelzel, Umami Bomb: 75 Vegetarian Recipes That Explode with Flavor, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 2:
- I quickly realized that I have always been obsessed with umami; I just didn't know it. It's why a sprinkle of Parm on just about anything heightens that dish's flavor; it's why grilled smoky mushrooms taste so good. Umami is a deeply satisfying taste, and luckily for us, umami is everywhere—it's in tomatoes and soy sauce, fresh and dried mushrooms, aged cheese, nutritional yeast […]
Derived terms
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[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Japanese 旨味, うまみ (umami).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]umami
Declension
[edit]Inflection of umami (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | umami | umamit | |
genitive | umamin | umamien | |
partitive | umamia | umameja | |
illative | umamiin | umameihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | umami | umamit | |
accusative | nom. | umami | umamit |
gen. | umamin | ||
genitive | umamin | umamien | |
partitive | umamia | umameja | |
inessive | umamissa | umameissa | |
elative | umamista | umameista | |
illative | umamiin | umameihin | |
adessive | umamilla | umameilla | |
ablative | umamilta | umameilta | |
allative | umamille | umameille | |
essive | umamina | umameina | |
translative | umamiksi | umameiksi | |
abessive | umamitta | umameitta | |
instructive | — | umamein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “umami”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04
Anagrams
[edit]Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Japanese 旨味 (umami), from 旨い (umai, “delicious”), which describes the quality of a pleasant, savory taste.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]umami (first-person possessive umamiku, second-person possessive umamimu, third-person possessive umaminya)
- (cooking) umami: one of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats.
Adjective
[edit]umami
Further reading
[edit]- “umami” 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
[edit]Romanization
[edit]umami
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Japanese 旨味, うまみ (umami).
Noun
[edit]umami m (definite singular umamien, uncountable)
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Japanese 旨味, うまみ (umami).
Noun
[edit]umami m (definite singular umamien, uncountable)
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 旨味, うまみ (umami).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]umami (not comparable, no derived adverb)
Noun
[edit]umami n (indeclinable)
Further reading
[edit]- umami in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 旨味 (umami), from 旨い (umai, “delicious”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]umami (invariable)
Noun
[edit]umami m (uncountable)
See also
[edit]Basic tastes in Portuguese · sabores (layout · text) | |||||
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doce | azedo | salgado | amargo | picante | umami |
Further reading
[edit]- “umami”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]umami m (uncountable)
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]umami c
Declension
[edit]Declension of umami | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | umami | umamin | — | — |
Genitive | umamis | umamins | — | — |
References
[edit]- English terms borrowed from Japanese
- English terms derived from Japanese
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɑːmi
- Rhymes:English/ɑːmi/3 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Taste
- Finnish terms derived from Japanese
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/umɑmi
- Rhymes:Finnish/umɑmi/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Japanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Japanese
- Indonesian 3-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- Indonesian uncountable nouns
- id:Cooking
- Indonesian adjectives
- Japanese non-lemma forms
- Japanese romanizations
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Japanese
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål uncountable nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Japanese
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk uncountable nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- Polish terms borrowed from Japanese
- Polish unadapted borrowings from Japanese
- Polish terms derived from Japanese
- Polish 3-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ami
- Rhymes:Polish/ami/3 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish adjectives
- Polish uncomparable adjectives
- Polish nouns
- Polish indeclinable nouns
- Polish neuter nouns
- pl:Taste
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Japanese
- Portuguese unadapted borrowings from Japanese
- Portuguese terms derived from Japanese
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese adjectives
- Portuguese indeclinable adjectives
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese uncountable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish uncountable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns