sushi

See also: Sushi, sùshí, and sūshi

English

Different types of sushi ready to be eaten.

Etymology

Borrowing from Japanese 寿司 ‎(sushi, “sushi (sour rice)”), ultimately from archaic conjugation 酸し ‎(sushi, “sour, vinegared”) of modern adjective 酸い ‎(sui, “sour, vinegared”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: so͝osh'i, IPA^(key): /ˈsʊʃi/
• enPR: so͞osh'i, IPA^(key): /ˈsuːʃi/

Noun

sushi ‎(usually uncountable, plural sushis)

1. A Japanese dish made of small portions of sticky white rice flavored with vinegar, usually wrapped in seaweed and filled or topped with fish, vegetables or meat.

   For the vegetarians, she served cucumber sushi.

2. (proscribed) Raw fish, especially as a Japanese dish.
   • 2012, Alison Acheson, Molly's Cue, page 26:

     'Can't eat sushi?' I said. Then Mom said, 'You can't eat uncooked fish when you're pregnant' as if I'm the one stupid enough to go and get pregnant!

Usage notes

Though the primary ingredient of Japanese sushi is flavored rice, non-Japanese people often often assume that the defining component is raw fish, and occasionally use "sushi" to mean "raw fish". Raw slices of fish (or other meats) served without rice are properly called sashimi.

Derived terms

• sushi pizza

Translations

Japanese dish

• Amharic: ሱሺ ‎(suši)
• Arabic: سُوشِي m ‎(sūšī)
• Armenian: սուշի ‎(suši)
• Azeri: suşi
• Basque: sushi
• Bavarian: Suschi
• Belarusian: су́шы n ‎(súšy)
• Breton: sushi
• Bulgarian: су́ши (bg) n ‎(súši)
• Burmese: ဆူရှီ ‎(hcuhri)
• Catalan: sushi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 壽司, 寿司 ‎(sau⁶ si¹)

  Hakka: 壽司, 寿司 ‎(su-sí)

  Mandarin: 壽司 (zh), 寿司 (zh) ‎(shòusī), 日本壽司, 日本寿司 ‎(Rìběn shòusī)

  Min Nan: 臭酸飯, 臭酸饭 ‎(chhàu-sng-pn̄g), 醋飯箍, 醋饭箍 ‎(chhò͘-pn̄g-kho͘), 壽司, 寿司 ‎(sú-sih)

• Czech: suši (cs)
• Danish: sushi (da)
• Dutch: sushi (nl)
• Esperanto: suŝio
• Estonian: suši
• Finnish: sushi (fi), suši
• French: sushi (fr) m
• Galician: sushi
• Georgian: სუში ‎(suši)
• German: Sushi (de) n
• Greek: σούσι (el) ‎(soúsi)
• Hebrew: סוּשִׁי (he) m ‎(súshi)
• Hindi: सुशी ‎(suśī)
• Hungarian: szusi (hu)
• Icelandic: sushi
• Ido: sushi
• Indonesian: sushi
• Irish: súisí
• Italian: sushi (it)
• Japanese: 鮨 (ja), 鮓 (ja), 寿司 (ja), すし (ja) ‎(sushi)

• Javanese: sushi
• Korean: 초밥 (ko) ‎(chobap), 스시 (ko) ‎(seusi)
• Lao: ຊູຊິ ‎(sū si)
• Latvian: suši (lv)
• Lithuanian: sušis m
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: soesie

• Macedonian: су́ши n ‎(súši)
• Malay: susyi
• Maltese: suxi
• Marathi: सुशी f ‎(suśī)
• Navajo: łóóʼ tʼáá tʼéehgo bił asdisígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sushi

• Persian: سوشی ‎(suši)
• Polish: sushi (pl) n
• Portuguese: sushi (pt) m
• Romanian: sushi
• Russian: су́ши (ru) n ‎(súši), су́си (ru) n ‎(súsi)
• Scots: sushi
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: су̏ши m

  Roman: sȕši (sh) m

• Slovak: suši
• Slovene: suši m
• Spanish: sushi (es) m
• Swahili: sushi
• Swedish: sushi (sv) c
• Tagalog: sushi
• Thai: ซูชิ (th) ‎(soo-chí)
• Turkish: suşi (tr)
• Ukrainian: су́ші n ‎(súši)
• Urdu: سشی ‎(suśī)
• Vietnamese: sushi
• Welsh: sushi

See also

• California roll
• nigiri
• sashimi
• sushi roll
• kimbap

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Italian

Noun

sushi m ‎(invariable)

1. sushi

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Japanese

Romanization

sushi

1. rōmaji reading of すし

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Polish

Etymology

From Japanese 寿司 (sushi)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuɕi/, IPA^(key): /ˈsuʃi/

Noun

sushi n

1. sushi

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Portuguese

Noun

sushi m (plural sushis)

1. sushi (Japanese dish of rice with vinegar)
2. (proscribed) sushi (raw fish in Japanese cuisine)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Japanese 寿司 (sushi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.ʃi/

Noun

sushi m ‎(plural sushis)

1. sushi