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Japanese
| For pronunciation and definitions of なんばん – see the following entry.
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| 【南蛮】
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- (derogatory, archaic) a foreigner from Portugal or Spain; more broadly, a westerner in general
- (in Japan from the mid-1400s) the inhabitants of Southeast Asia, particularly the islands of Luzon and Java in the modern-day Philippines and Indonesia
- (in ancient China) the non-Chinese ethnic groups to China's south
- (in the ancient Baekje kingdom of the Korean peninsula) the island of Jeju to the south
- a type of movement in kabuki, bunraku, and Japanese dance where the performer mirrors left and right (based on a common myth that westerners walked differently somehow)
- Short for 南蛮辛子 (nanban-garashi):
- Short for 南蛮黍 (nanban kibi):
- a general term for styles of cooking that use leeks, chilis, and oil
- Short for 南蛮煮 (nanban ni): a soup or stew dish cooked with leeks
- Short for 南蛮船 (nanbansen): a sailing ship from Spain or Portugal (in the Muromachi and Edo periods)
- from the west, from Europe
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| (This term, なんばん (nanban), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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