tamagoyaki

English

tamagoyaki

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 卵焼き (literally “grilled egg”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

tamagoyaki (uncountable)

1. A Japanese omelette made by rolling together several layers of cooked egg, usually prepared in a rectangular pan.
   • 1907 February, Janet M. Hill, “After Breakfast Chat”, in The Boston Cooking-School Magazine, volume 10, number 7, Boston, page 346:

     The menu included: udon (noodle soup), chicken udon, chawan moosh (steamed custard, fine vegetables), tamago yaki (ham omelette), suki yaki (chop suey), chicken suki yaki (chicken chop suey), ira udon (chop suey, fried noodles), chicken iri udon, mesha (rice), chab (tea), shoga (candy ginger).

Synonyms

• dashimaki
• tamago

Indonesian

Etymology

From Japanese 卵焼(たまごや)き (tamagoyaki, literally “grilled egg”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tamaɡoˈjaki]
• Hyphenation: ta‧ma‧go‧ya‧ki

Noun

tamagoyaki (plural tamagoyaki-tamagoyaki)

1. (cooking) tamagoyaki

Further reading

• “tamagoyaki”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Japanese

Romanization

tamagoyaki

1. Rōmaji transcription of たまごやき