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

Noun Inflected Forms

• soba
  plural

Etymology

Origin of soba

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

soba

I brew some soba cha from my friend Makio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

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

You want the soba noodles or the udon noodles because that's going to determine which restaurant you go to.

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 Lafcadio Hearn