wagyu

English

A filet of wagyu beef

Etymology

From Japanese 和(わ)牛(ぎゅう) (wagyū), from Middle Chinese 和 (MC hwa, “a gloss for 倭 (MC 'wa, “Japan”)”) + 牛 (MC ngjuw, “cow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwæɡ.juː/, /ˈwɑːɡ.juː/, (nonstandard) /ˈwæ.ɡuː/

Noun

wagyu (countable and uncountable, plural wagyus or wagyu)

1. (countable) Any of several Japanese breeds of cattle genetically predisposed to intense marbling and to producing a high percentage of oleaginous unsaturated fat.
   • 2009 January 19, Corey Mintz, “Susur and the City”, in Toronto Star‎^[1]:

     Slices of wagyu beef come with spheres of root vegetables and mini-towers of polenta.

2. Beef from such cattle.

Synonyms

• Kobe

Derived terms

• washugyu

Translations

breed of cattle

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: واقيو m (wāgyu)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 和牛 (héniú)

• Esperanto: vagjuo
• Japanese: 和牛 (wagyū)
• Korean: 와규 (wagyu)

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 和(わ)牛(ぎゅう) (wagyū), from 和 (わ, wa, “Japan”) +‎ 牛 (ぎゅう, gyū, “cow, bull, ox, cattle; beef”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa.ɡʲu/
• Hyphenation: wa‧gyu

Noun

wagyu (first-person possessive wagyuku, second-person possessive wagyumu, third-person possessive wagyunya)

1. (cooking) wagyu: any of several Japanese breeds of cattle genetically predisposed to intense marbling and to producing a high percentage of oleaginous unsaturated fat.

Further reading

• “wagyu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Spanish

Noun

wagyu m (plural wagyus)

1. wagyu