soba

[ soh-buh ]

/ ˈsoʊ bə /

Save This Word!

noun, plural so·ba.

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

QUIZ

GOOSES. GEESES. I WANT THIS QUIZ ON PLURAL NOUNS!

Test how much you really know about regular and irregular plural nouns with this quiz.

Question 1 of 9

Which of the following nouns has an irregular plural form?

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Origin of soba

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

Words nearby soba

so as to, soave, Soave operation, Soay, sob, soba, sobeit, sober, sober as a judge, sober-headed, sobering

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2022

How to use soba in a sentence

My noodles of choice in this dish are soba, which have a nice nuttiness that complements the sauce, but you could use any noodle in its place.
Spicy peanut noodles are a quick, pantry-friendly meal that’s ready for riffing|Aaron Hutcherson|June 16, 2021|Washington Post
For those unfamiliar, soba is buckwheat noodle dish—and they proved much more popular amongst the public.
Inside The World’s 10 Oldest Restaurants|Justin Jones|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Week after week we are shaken to learn that French bistro—No, Mongolian—No, Genever gin—No, soba—is THE food trend of the moment.
This Book Will Change the Way You Eat|Lucas Wittmann|December 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Soba noodles, on the other hand, which are made out of buckwheat, are deeply flavorful.
What to Eat: Cleansers|Cookstr.com|January 5, 2010|DAILY BEAST

Drink vely bad for Inglismen; what for you dont go home and teach them to be soba, plaupa men?
The Truth about Opium|William H. Brereton
So that our researches issued in no corroboration of Soba being Modin.
Byeways in Palestine|James Finn
The soba is a sort of vermicelli made of buckwheat, and the udon a kind of macaroni, solid and not in tubes.
A Japanese Boy|Shigemi Shiukichi
To provide for any among them that did not love sweet things we had the soba or the udon brought to us by their vender.
A Japanese Boy|Shigemi Shiukichi

British Dictionary definitions for soba

soba

/ (ˈsəʊbə) /

noun

(in Japanese cookery) noodles made from buckwheat flour

Word Origin for soba

Japanese

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012