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Japanese
| For pronunciation and definitions of なべ – see the following entries.
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- a broad-bottomed pot or pan
- short for 鍋料理 (nabe ryōri, literally “pot + cooking”) or 鍋物 (nabemono, literally “pot + thing”), a dish where everything is cooked together in a nabe; compare English hot pot or hotdish
- by extension from the sense of someone working with pots and pans: a maidservant
- (historical, slang) by further extension from the sense of maidservant: a woman (in reference to sex)
- (historical, slang, archaic) during the late Edo period, a 搗米屋 (tsukigomeya, “rice polisher shop, white rice retailer”) who has run out of stock
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(This term, なべ (nabe), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as なべ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as なべ.)
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