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One of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: savoriness, deliciousness, meatiness, brothiness
Antonyms: none provided
From Japanese 旨味, うまみ (umami), from 旨い (umai, “delicious”) + み (-mi, “-ness”), which describes the quality of a pleasant, savory taste.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Albanian:
ngjelmë
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Arabic:
أُومَامِي
(ʔūmāmī)
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Bulgarian:
умами
(umami)
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Chinese Cantonese:
鮮味 /鲜味
(sin1 mei6)
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Chinese Mandarin:
鮮味 /鲜味
(xiānwèi)
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Czech:
umami
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Danish:
umami
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Dutch:
umami
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Dutch:
hartig
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Esperanto:
umamo
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Finnish:
umami
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Finnish:
ruokaisuus
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Finnish:
lihaisuus
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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French:
umami
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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German:
Umami
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Greek:
ουμάμι
(oumámi)
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Hungarian:
umami
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Indonesian:
gurih
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Indonesian:
umami
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Italian:
umami
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Japanese:
旨味
(umami)
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Khmer:
អ៊ុំម៉ាមី
(ʼummaamii)
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Korean:
감칠맛
(gamchilmat)
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Korean:
우마미
(umami)
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Malay:
umami
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Malay:
gurih
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Malay:
berlauk
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Norwegian Bokmål:
umami
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
umami
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Russian:
ума́ми
(umámi)
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Spanish:
umami
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Swedish:
umami
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Thai:
รสอูมามิ
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Thai:
อูมามิ
(uu-maa-mí)
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Turkish:
umami
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Ukrainian:
ума́мі
(umámi)
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
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Vietnamese:
ngọt thịt
— one of the five basic tastes, savoriness
