English Explanatory Dictionary

adzuki

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Either the plant or the seed of the azuki bean.

Word forms

adzuki adzukis azuki

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 小豆(あずき) (azuki, literally “small bean”). In Japanese, it was historically pronounced /aduki/, but /du/ eventually transformed into /zu/, and was variously romanized as "dzu" and "zu" (compare kudzu).

Synonyms

azuki adzuki bean azuki bean
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