dashi
French, noun/da.ʃi/
dashi is spelled D-A-S-H-I (5 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 142,934th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dashi is a French masculine noun meaning “dashi” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bouillon de base dans la cuisine japonaise, généralement élaboré à partir de varech”.
What does dashi mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedashi
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bouillon de base dans la cuisine japonaise, généralement élaboré à partir de varech.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce dashi?
- /da.ʃi/
- \da.ʃi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dashi in French?
dashi appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).