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rice wine

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to grape wine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Across languages

Translations

24 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: оризово вино (orizovo vino) — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Chinese Cantonese: 米酒 (mai5 zau2) — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Chinese Mandarin: 黃酒 /黄酒 (huángjiǔ) — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Chinese Mandarin: 米酒 (mǐjiǔ) — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Danish: risvin — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Dutch: rijstwijn — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Estonian: riisivein — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Finnish: riisiviini — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • French: vin de riz — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • German: Reiswein — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Japanese: ライスワイン (raisuwain) — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Japanese: 日本酒 (nihonshu) — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Japanese: 清酒 (seishu) — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Kankanaey: tapey — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Khmer: ស្រាស (sraa sɑɑ) — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Korean: 청주 (cheongju) — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Korean: 미주 (miju) — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Latvian: rīsu vīns — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Maranao: basi' — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Polish: wino ryżowe — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Russian: ри́совое вино́ (rísovoje vinó) — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Swedish: risvin — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Tagalog: alak-bigas — alcoholic drink brewed from rice
  • Tagalog: siyoktong — alcoholic drink brewed from rice