adzuki

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 小豆 (azuki). In Japanese, it was historically pronounced /aduki/, but /du/ eventually transformed into /zu/, and was variously romanized as "dzu" and "zu".

Noun

adzuki (plural adzukis)

  1. Either the plant or the seed of the azuki bean
    • 2003, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living‎, 9th ed. edition, →ISBN, page 289:
      Adzukis need 118 days to start bearing.

Synonyms

Translations
azuki bean — see azuki bean

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

adzuki m (Cyrillic spelling адзуки)

  1. azuki bean

Synonyms
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