Each month we’re going to take a look at a few food words in different languages worldwide. Let’s start with Japanese!
- breakfast – cho’shoku, asameshi
- lunch – chu’jiki
- dinner – gosan, bansan
- beer – biiru, bakushu
- coffee – ko’hi, kafe
- juice – shiru, ekiju
- milk – gyu’nyu, miruku
- tea – ocha, cha
- water – mizu, suiiki
- wine – budo’shu, kajitsushu
- dessert – deza’to
- cake – keki
- butter – nyu’raku
- sugar – sato, shuga
- salt – shio, en
- pepper – kosho, peppa
- soup – su’pu, shiru
- bread – pan
- rice – bei, gohan
- fruit – kudamono
- meat – niku, nikurui
- chicken – niwatori
- fish – sakana
- egg – tamago
- cheese – chi’zu, kanraku
Reference: www.languagelearninglibrary.org
