First opened Thursday, March 13, 2008
ハンバーグ
ハンバーグ
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
hamburger steak
Hanbāgu is shortened from ハンバーグステーキ (hanbāgu sutēki), from English Hamburg steak, first cited to 1941.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
In a sentence
ハンバーグを２個注文した。
I ordered two hamburgers.
彼女はハンバーグの肉をたたいて平たくした。
She patted the hamburger meat into a flat shape.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Shortened from earlier ハンバーグステーキ (hanbāgu sutēki), a borrowing from English Hamburg steak.”
- “First cited to 1941.”
- “Borrowed from English Hamburg.”
- “First cited to 1898.”
Source: Wiktionary: ハンバーグ (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 外来語 Loanword
- Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.