"instant noodle" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: instant noodles [plural]
Etymology: Calque of Japanese 即席ラーメン (sokuseki rāmen) Etymology templates: {{calque|en|ja|即席ラーメン|tr=sokuseki rāmen}} Calque of Japanese 即席ラーメン (sokuseki rāmen) Head templates: {{en-noun}} instant noodle (plural instant noodles)
  1. (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. Wikipedia link: instant noodle Tags: in-plural Translations (a mass of precooked noodles): 即食麵 (Chinese Cantonese), 即食面 (zik¹ sik⁶ min⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 公仔麵 (Chinese Cantonese), 公仔面 (gung¹ zai² min⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 方便麵 (Chinese Mandarin), 方便面 (fāngbiàn miàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 速食麵 (Chinese Mandarin), 速食面 (sùshímiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 泡麵 (Chinese Mandarin), 泡面 (pàomiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), instantnoedels [plural] (Dutch), pikanuudeli (Finnish), nouilles instantanées [feminine, plural] (French), Fertignudel [feminine] (German), Fertignudeln [feminine, plural] (German), Instantnudeln [feminine, plural] (German), instant tészta (Hungarian), mi instan (Indonesian), インスタントラーメン (insutanto rāmen) (Japanese), 即席麺 (sokusekimen) (Japanese), カップラーメン (kappu rāmen) (Japanese), 即席ラーメン (sokuseki rāmen) (Japanese), មីកញ្ចប់ (mii kɑɑkɑñcɑp) (Khmer), 라면 (ramyeon) (Korean), 컵라면 (keomnamyeon) (Korean), 즉석라면 (jeukseongnamyeon) (Korean), ໝີ່ກຶ່ງສຳເລັດຮູບ (mī kưng sam let hūp) (Lao), mi segera (Malay), бэлэн гоймон (belen gojmon) (Mongolian), zupa błyskawiczna [feminine] (Polish), zupka chińska [feminine] (Polish), macarrão instantâneo [masculine] (Portuguese), miojo [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), лапша́ бы́строго приготовле́ния (lapšá býstrovo prigotovlénija) [feminine] (Russian), fideos instantáneos [masculine, plural] (Spanish), snabbnudel [common-gender] (Swedish), ramyun (Tagalog), บะหมี่กึ่งสำเร็จรูป (bà-mìi-gʉ̀ng-sǎm-rèt-rûup) (Thai), มาม่า (maa-mâa) (Thai), hazır erişte (Turkish), تەييار چۆپ (teyyar chöp) (Uyghur), tezpishar ugra (Uzbek), mì ăn liền (Vietnamese)

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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lapšá býstrovo prigotovlénija",
      "sense": "a mass of precooked noodles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "лапша́ бы́строго приготовле́ния"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a mass of precooked noodles",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "fideos instantáneos"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a mass of precooked noodles",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "snabbnudel"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "a mass of precooked noodles",
      "word": "ramyun"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "bà-mìi-gʉ̀ng-sǎm-rèt-rûup",
      "sense": "a mass of precooked noodles",
      "word": "บะหมี่กึ่งสำเร็จรูป"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "maa-mâa",
      "sense": "a mass of precooked noodles",
      "word": "มาม่า"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a mass of precooked noodles",
      "word": "hazır erişte"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "teyyar chöp",
      "sense": "a mass of precooked noodles",
      "word": "تەييار چۆپ"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "a mass of precooked noodles",
      "word": "tezpishar ugra"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a mass of precooked noodles",
      "word": "mì ăn liền"
    }
  ],
  "word": "instant noodle"
}
{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": informal; proprietary eponym vs. maa-mâa",
  "path": [
    "instant noodle"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "instant noodle",
  "trace": ""
}

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