soba

American  

[soh-buh] / ˈsoʊ bə /

noun

soba plural

1. Japanese Cooking. a noodle made primarily from buckwheat flour, with some wheat flour added.

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soba British  

/ ˈsəʊbə /

noun

1. (in Japanese cookery) noodles made from buckwheat flour

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• soba
  plural

Etymology

Origin of soba

First recorded in 1895–1900; from Japanese: literally, “buckwheat, buckwheat noodle”

Example Sentences

Take a break from the 14 beginner-friendly, mostly gentle trails with a steaming bowl of buckwheat soba at Chouji-An, then hit the slopes for a few more hours.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026

The amount is equivalent to more than 6,000 orders of his most popular dish: soba with mixed vegetables and seafood tempura, which costs just over $3.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2024

Examples of food provided in the breast cancer clinical trial included peanut soba noodles, steel cut oatmeal, banana flax muffins, sweet potato enchiladas, and Mediterranean white bean soup.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2024

All they serve there is cold soba noodles with some dipping sauce.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2024

So clear the thin frosty air that each syllable quivers to us; but I cannot understand the words:- Saite yuke toya, ano ya wo saite; Yuke ba chikayoru nushi no soba.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Hearn, Lafcadio