five-spice powder

English

Etymology

Calque from Chinese 五香粉 (wǔxiāngfěn).

Noun

five-spice powder (usually uncountable, plural five-spice powders)

1. A ground mixture of five varieties of spice used in Chinese, East Asian and Southeast Asian cuisine.

Translations

ground mixture

• Burmese: တရုတ်မဆလာ (ta.rutma.hca.la)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 五香粉 (zh) (wǔxiāngfěn)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: viismauste
• Greek: μείγμα πέντε μπαχαρικών n (meígma pénte bacharikón)
• Japanese: 五香粉 (gokōfun), 五香粉 (ūshanfen), 五香粉 (ūshanfun)
• Korean: 오향분 (ohyangbun)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: bột ngũ vị hương, ngũ vị hương

Further reading

• five-spice powder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia