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Meaning 1
A Bantu language of Tanzania.
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Standard Lemma guide
Mochi
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/ˈmoʊtʃi/
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/ˈmɒtʃi/
noun
Meaning 2
A member of a Hindu caste known traditionally as shoemakers.
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noun
Meaning 3
A small Japanese rice cake made from glutinous rice.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 餅(もち) (mochi).
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: موتْشِي (mūtšī, mōtšī) — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Arabic: موتشي (mōtši) — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Armenian: մոտի (moti) — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Armenian: մոչի (močʻi) — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Burmese: မွာချီး (mwahkyi:) — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Chinese: 磨嘰 /磨叽 (mòji) — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Chinese: 麻糍 (zh-min-nan) — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Chinese Mandarin: 麻糬 (máshǔ) — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Finnish: mochi — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Finnish: riisikakku — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- French: mochi — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Indonesian: moci — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Japanese: 餅 (mochi) — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Khmer: ម៉ូជី (moucii) — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Korean: 모찌 (mojji) — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Korean: 떡 (tteok) — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Okinawan: 餅 (muchi) — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Russian: мо́ти (móti) — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Russian: ри́совая лепёшка (rísovaja lepjóška) — rice cake made from glutinous rice
- Thai: โมจิ (moo-jì) — rice cake made from glutinous rice