onigiri

Borrowed from Japanese お握り (onigiri).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊ.nɪˈɡɪɹ.i/

onigiri (plural onigiris or onigiri)

1. A Japanese rice ball.
   • 2007 January 28, “Island Within an Island”, in New York Times‎:

     The sprawling multipage menu offers cleanly executed dishes meant to accompany the sake, including standards like boiled edamame, and the filling rice balls called onigiri that you would expect at any izakaya, or Japanese pub.

   • 2009, Kiyo Sato, Kiyo's Story:

     He cooks his breakfast of rice and misoshiru and packs onigiri rice balls for his lunch.

• omusubi
• Japanese rice ball

From Japanese お握り (onigiri).

• IPA^(key): /ˈoniɡiri/, [ˈo̞niˌɡiri]
• Rhymes: -iri
• Syllabification^(key): o‧ni‧gi‧ri

onigiri

1. onigiri

• riisipallo

Borrowed from Japanese お握り (おにぎり, onigiri, “rice ball”).

• IPA^(key): /o.ni.ɡi.ri/
• Hyphenation: o‧ni‧gi‧ri

onigiri (first-person possessive onigiriku, second-person possessive onigirimu, third-person possessive onigirinya)

1. rice ball.

• nasi kepal

Borrowed from Japanese お握り (onigiri).

onigiri m (invariable)

1. onigiri

• origini

onigiri

1. Rōmaji transcription of おにぎり