Standard Lemma guide

sushi

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/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • 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
  • : 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
  • Nepali: सुसी (susī) — Japanese dish
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sushi — Japanese dish
  • Iranian Persian: سوشی (suši) — Japanese dish
  • Polish: sushi — Japanese dish
  • Portuguese: sushi — Japanese dish
  • Punjabi: ਸੂਸ਼ੀ (sūśī) — Japanese dish
  • Punjabi: ਸੁਸ਼ੀ (suśī) — Japanese dish
  • Romanian: sushi — Japanese dish
  • Russian: су́ши (súši) — Japanese dish
  • Russian: су́си (súsi) — Japanese dish
  • Scots: sushi — Japanese dish
  • Serbo-Croatian: су̏ши — Japanese dish
  • Serbo-Croatian: sȕši — Japanese dish
  • Sinhalese: සුෂි (suṣi) — Japanese dish
  • Slovak: suši — Japanese dish
  • Slovene: suši — Japanese dish
  • Spanish: sushi — Japanese dish
  • Swahili: sushi — Japanese dish
  • Swedish: sushi — Japanese dish
  • Tagalog: sushi — Japanese dish
  • Tajik: суши (suš-i) — Japanese dish
  • Tamil: சுசீ (cucī) — Japanese dish
  • Tamil: சூசீ (cūcī) — Japanese dish
  • Telugu: సుశీ (suśī) — Japanese dish
  • Telugu: సూశీ (sūśī) — Japanese dish
  • Thai: ซูชิ (suu-chí) — Japanese dish
  • Tibetan: ཧྲོའུ་སི (hro'u si) — Japanese dish
  • Turkish: suşi — Japanese dish
  • Turkmen: suşi — Japanese dish
  • Ukrainian: су́ші (súši) — Japanese dish
  • Urdu: سُشی (suśī) — Japanese dish
  • Urdu: سُوشی (sūśī) — Japanese dish
  • Uzbek: sushi — Japanese dish
  • Vietnamese: sushi — Japanese dish
  • Welsh: swshi — Japanese dish
  • Yiddish: סושי (sushi) — Japanese dish