instant noodle

English

Etymology

Calque of Japanese 即席ラーメン (sokuseki rāmen)

Noun

instant noodle (plural instant noodles)

1. (chiefly in the plural) One of a mass of dried precooked noodles fused with oil, usually soaked in boiling water for a few minutes before being eaten.

Translations

a mass of precooked noodles

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 即食麵／即食面 (yue) (zik¹ sik⁶ min⁶), 公仔麵／公仔面 (gung¹ zai² min⁶)

  Mandarin: 方便麵／方便面 (zh) (fāngbiàn miàn), 速食麵／速食面 (zh) (sùshímiàn), 泡麵／泡面 (zh) (pàomiàn)

• Dutch: instantnoedels pl
• Finnish: pikanuudeli (fi)
• French: nouilles instantanées (fr) f pl
• German: Fertignudel f, Fertignudeln f pl, Instantnudeln f pl
• Hungarian: instant tészta
• Indonesian: mi instan
• Japanese: インスタントラーメン (ja) (insutanto rāmen), 即席麺 (ja) (sokusekimen), カップラーメン (kappu rāmen), 即席ラーメン (sokuseki rāmen)
• Khmer: មីកញ្ចប់ (mii kɑñcɑp)
• Korean: 라면 (ko) (ramyeon), 컵라면 (ko) (keomnamyeon), 즉석라면 (jeukseongnamyeon)
• Lao: ໝີ່ກຶ່ງສຳເລັດຮູບ (mī kưng sam let hūp)
• Malay: mi segera
• Mongolian: бэлэн гоймон (belen gojmon)
• Polish: zupa błyskawiczna f, zupka chińska (pl) f
• Portuguese: macarrão instantâneo (pt) m, miojo (pt) m (Brazil)
• Russian: лапша́ бы́строго приготовле́ния f (lapšá býstrovo prigotovlénija)
• Spanish: fideos instantáneos m pl
• Swedish: snabbnudel c
• Tagalog: ramyun
• Thai: บะหมี่กึ่งสำเร็จรูป (th) (bà-mìi-gʉ̀ng-sǎm-rèt-rûup), มาม่า (th) (maa-mâa) (informal; proprietary eponym)
• Turkish: hazır erişte
• Uyghur: تەييار چۆپ (teyyar chöp)
• Uzbek: tezpishar ugra
• Vietnamese: mì ăn liền