mirin

See also: 'mirin

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 味醂 (mirin).

Noun

mirin (usually uncountable, plural mirins)

1. A form of Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake and used in cooking.
   • 1989 November, Drew DeSilver, Jan Gahala, “What is that stuff?”, in Vegetarian Times, →ISSN, page 43:

     Although naturally brewed mirin is made from only water, sweet brown rice, and rice koji, much of the mirin sold in natural food stores and Oriental markets is sweetened with sugar or corn syrup; read labels carefully.

   • 2017, James Peterson, Sauces: Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making, HarperCollins, →ISBN:

     Teriyaki sauce, a mixture of mirin, sake, soy sauce, and sometimes sugar, may be brushed on meats, fish, or vegetables […]

Translations

Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 味醂 (mei⁶ lam⁴, mei⁶ lam⁵)

  Mandarin: 味醂 (zh) (wèilǎn, wèilín)

• Indonesian: mirin
• Japanese: 味醂 (ja) (mirin)
• Portuguese: mirin m

Catalan

Verb

mirin

1. inflection of mirar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Indonesian

Etymology

From Japanese 味醂 (みりん, mirin), from 味 (み, mi, “flavour (UK); flavor (US)”) + 醂 (りん, rin, “remove astringency; bleach in water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmirɪn]
• Hyphenation: mi‧rin

Noun

mirin (plural mirin-mirin, first-person possessive mirinku, second-person possessive mirinmu, third-person possessive mirinnya)

1. (cooking) mirin, a type of Japanese sake used for cooking

Further reading

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

Northern Kurdish

mirin

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *márti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *márti, from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈɾɪn/

Noun

Central Kurdish	مردن (mirdin)

mirin f

1. death