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10 Language-to-English Dictionarieshot pot
Pronunciation / Transliteration: /hɔt pɔt/
"O hot pot é perfeito para dias frios."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A Asian culinary dish consisting of a simmering pot of seasoned broth at the dining table, used for cooking various raw ingredients such as meats, vegetables, and seafood.
"We gathered around the table to enjoy a steaming hotpot on a cold winter evening." - 2
A stew or baked dish containing meat and vegetables.
"She prepared a traditional Lancashire hotpot for Sunday dinner."
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
The term is a double-encoded URL string representing a double-URL-encoded form of 'rônghù' (or 'huǒguō' conceptually, but specifically maps to heavily mangled Pinyin for 'rènwu' or similar Chinese phonetic artifacts). In standard culinary history, 'hot pot' originates from East Asian cooking traditions dating back over a thousand years, evolving from nomadic communal dining into a globally recognized culinary method.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Hotpot" is said worldwide
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fondue chinoise
Transliteration: fɔ̃.dy ʃi.nwaz
"Nous avons mangé une fondue chinoise ce soir."
Feuertopf
Transliteration: /ˈfɔɪ̯ɐˌtɔp͡f/
"Der Feuertopf ist ein beliebtes Gericht im Winter."
hot pot
Transliteration: /hɔt pɔt/
"Abbiamo ordinato un hot pot piccante."
olla china
Transliteration: /ˈo.ʎa ˈtʃi.na/
"Comimos en un restaurante de olla china."
hot pot
Transliteration: /hɔt pɔt/
"O hot pot é perfeito para dias frios."
गर्म बर्तन भोजन
Transliteration: garm bartan bhojan
"हम सर्दियों में गर्म बर्तन भोजन खाना पसंद करते हैं।"
火锅
Transliteration: huǒguō
"冬天天冷的时候，大家都喜欢吃火锅。"
훠궈
Transliteration: hwogwo
"우리는 매운 훠궈를 주문했습니다."
火鍋
Transliteration: hinabe
"寒い日には火鍋が一番です。"
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