soba

[ soh-buh ]

noun,plural so·ba.
  1. Japanese Cooking. a noodle made primarily from buckwheat flour, with some wheat flour added.

Origin of soba

1
First recorded in 1895–1900; from Japanese: literally, “buckwheat, buckwheat noodle”

Words Nearby soba

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How to use soba in a sentence

  • So that our researches issued in no corroboration of soba being Modin.

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

Origin of soba

1
Japanese

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