Calque of Japanese 即席ラーメン (sokuseki rāmen)[1]
instant noodle (plural instant noodles)
- (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.
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), 인스턴트 라면 (inseuteonteu ramyeon), 즉석라면 (jeukseongnamyeon), 컵라면 (ko) (keomnamyeon)
- 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 (vi)
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- ^ Chinatown News, vol. 17, no. 1, 1969, p. 55:
INSTANT NOODLES FROM JAPAN “Sokuseki Ramen,” or instant Japanese noodles cost 25 yen (7 cents) per meal. They take less than five minutes to prepare and serve piping hot.