noun · verb · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation:so͞osh'i
Received-Pronunciation:/ˈsuːʃi/
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Canada, General-American:/ˈsuʃi/
Northern-Ireland, Scotland:/ˈsʉʃe/
Northern-Ireland, Scotland:/ˈsʉʃɪ/
Northern-Ireland, Scotland:/ˈsʉʃi/
rhymes with -uːʃi
homophone: souchy
CMU ARPABET:S UW1 SH IY0
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Examples
For the vegetarians, she served cucumber sushi.
He went to a Japanese restaurant and ordered sushi and noodles.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
One of the portions from this dish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rare, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
Raw fish, especially as a Japanese dish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: proscribed, uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
A person who typifies a mixture of Shiism and Sunnism
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
5
verb
Meaning 5
To prepare (a food) as sushi.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
6
noun
Meaning 6
rice (with raw fish) wrapped in seaweed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dish
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 寿司(すし) (sushi, “sushi (sour rice)”), ultimately from archaic conjugation 酸(す)し (sushi, “sour, vinegared”) of modern adjective 酸(す)い (sui, “sour, vinegared”).
Across languages
Translations
103 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Albanian:
sushi
— Japanese dish
Amharic:
ሱሺ
(suši)
— Japanese dish
Arabic:
سُوشِي
(sūšī)
— Japanese dish
Armenian:
սուշի
(suši)
— Japanese dish
Azerbaijani:
suşi
— Japanese dish
Basque:
sushi
— Japanese dish
Belarusian:
су́шы
(súšy)
— Japanese dish
Bengali:
সুশি
(śuśi)
— Japanese dish
Breton:
sushi
— Japanese dish
Bulgarian:
су́ши
(súši)
— Japanese dish
Burmese:
ဆူရှီ
(hcuhri)
— Japanese dish
Catalan:
sushi
— Japanese dish
Chinese Cantonese:
壽司 /寿司
(sau6 si1)
— Japanese dish
Hakka Chinese:
壽司 /寿司
(su-sí)
— Japanese dish
Chinese:
壽司 /寿司
(sú-sih)
— Japanese dish
Chinese:
醋飯箍 /醋饭箍
(chhò͘-pn̄g-kho͘)
— Japanese dish
Chinese:
臭酸飯 /臭酸饭
(chhàu-sng-pn̄g)
— Japanese dish
Chinese Mandarin:
壽司 /寿司
(shòusī)
— Japanese dish
Chinese Mandarin:
日本壽司 /日本寿司
(Rìběn shòusī)
— Japanese dish
Czech:
suši
— Japanese dish
Danish:
sushi
— Japanese dish
Dutch:
sushi
— Japanese dish
Esperanto:
suŝio
— Japanese dish
Estonian:
suši
— Japanese dish
Faroese:
sushi
— Japanese dish
Finnish:
sushi
— Japanese dish
Finnish:
suši
— Japanese dish
French:
sushi
— Japanese dish
Galician:
sushi
— Japanese dish
Georgian:
სუში
(suši)
— Japanese dish
German:
Sushi
— Japanese dish
Bavarian German:
Suschi
— Japanese dish
Greek:
σούσι
(soúsi)
— Japanese dish
Gujarati:
સુશી
(suśī)
— Japanese dish
Hebrew:
סוּשִׁי
(súshi)
— Japanese dish
Hindi:
सुशी
(suśī)
— Japanese dish
Hindi:
सूशी
(sūśī)
— Japanese dish
Hungarian:
szusi
— Japanese dish
Icelandic:
sushi
— Japanese dish
Ido:
sushi
— Japanese dish
Indonesian:
sushi
— Japanese dish
Indonesian:
susyi
— Japanese dish
Irish:
súisí
— Japanese dish
Italian:
sushi
— Japanese dish
Japanese:
寿司
(sushi)
— Japanese dish
Japanese:
すし
(sushi)
— Japanese dish
Javanese:
sushi
— Japanese dish
Kannada:
ಸುಶೀ
(suśī)
— Japanese dish
Kannada:
ಸೂಶೀ
(sūśī)
— Japanese dish
Kazakh:
суши
(suşi)
— Japanese dish
Khmer:
ស៊ូស៊ី
(suusii)
— Japanese dish
Korean:
초밥
(chobap)
— Japanese dish
Korean:
스시
(seusi)
— Japanese dish
Kyrgyz:
суши
(suşi)
— Japanese dish
Lao:
ຊູຊິ
(sū si)
— Japanese dish
Latvian:
suši
— Japanese dish
Lithuanian:
sušis
— Japanese dish
Lü:
ᦌᦳᦌᦲ
(susii)
— Japanese dish
Macedonian:
су́ши
(súši)
— Japanese dish
Malay:
susyi
— Japanese dish
Malayalam:
സുഷി
(suṣi)
— Japanese dish
Maltese:
suxi
— Japanese dish
Marathi:
सुशी
(suśī)
— Japanese dish
Marathi:
सूशी
(sūśī)
— Japanese dish
Classical Nahuatl:
sushi
— Japanese dish
Navajo:
łóóʼ tʼáá tʼéehgo bił asdisígíí
— Japanese dish
Navajo:
łóóʼ binááʼádaałtsʼózí deiyánígíí
— Japanese dish