anko

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See also: ankò and ankō

English

Etymology

From Japanese 餡子 (anko).

Noun

anko (uncountable)

  1. A paste made of azuki beans.
    Synonym: red bean
    • 2018, Luiz Hara, The Japanese Larder: Bringing Japanese Ingredients into Your Everyday Cooking, Jacqui Small for White Lion Publishing, The Quarto Group, →ISBN, page 71, column 2:
      You can buy good-quality, canned ready-made anko from Japanese grocery stores or online, or make your own at home by following my Anko recipe on page 98.
    • 2020, Shauna Holyoak, Kazu Jones and the Comic Book Criminal, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
      Mom nodded at the head of her bed, and I sat down, handing her one perfect bun, toasted to a honey-golden crisp. She pulled it into two pieces, exposing the red anko center and a puff cloud of steam.
    • 2022, Katherine Tamiko Arguile, Meshi: A Personal History of Japanese Food, Melbourne, Vic.: Affirm Press, →ISBN:
      Stir in the salt and mix thoroughly before allowing the anko to cool for serving.
    • 2023, The Great American Recipe Cookbook: 100 Memorable Recipes to Celebrate the Diversity and Flavors of American Food, season two edition, Dallas, Tex.: BenBella Books, →ISBN:
      To make the anko filling, rinse the adzuki beans under cool running water until it runs clear.

Further reading

Japanese

Romanization

anko

  1. Rōmaji transcription of あんこ

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hanko.

Pronunciation

Noun

anko

  1. pitchfork

Inflection

Declension of anko (type II/võrkko, nk-ng gradation)
singular plural
nominative anko angod
genitive ango ankojõ, ankoi
partitive ankoa ankoitõ, ankoi
illative ankosõ, anko ankoisõ
inessive angoz ankoiz
elative angossõ ankoissõ
allative angolõ ankoilõ
adessive angollõ ankoillõ
ablative angoltõ ankoiltõ
translative angossi ankoissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “anko”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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