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konbu

Syllables: kon·buUK/ˈkɒnbuː/

konbu is the alternative spelling of kombu.

Meaning of kombu

Noun (1)

kombu (uncountable)

  1. Edible kelp (“a type of brown seaweed”) (from the class Phaeophyceae) used in East Asian cuisine.
    • [T]he productions of Jeso, in particular, are as follows: konbu, or sea-cabbage, birds of prey for hawking, whales and other sea-fish, skins of otters, beavers, seals, and stags, castoreum, gold, silver, adamantine spar.1855, Richard Hildreth, “[Appendix.] Note H. Account of Japan, Chiefly Extracted from Japanese Works. […]”, in Japan as It Was and Is, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company; New York, N.Y....

Noun (2)

kombu (plural kombus)

  1. A kind of long horn instrument from Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Origin of konbu

See kombu.

Questions about konbu

What is konbu the alternative spelling of?
Konbu is the alternative spelling of kombu.
How do you pronounce konbu?
Konbu is pronounced /ˈkɒnbuː/ (UK).

Words near konbu in the dictionary

  1. Konats
  2. Konavle
  3. Konbaung
  4. konbini
  5. konbinis
  6. konbu
  7. koncovka
  8. Konczal
  9. Konda
  10. Konda-Dora
  11. Kondagaon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: konbu (page history and authors); kombu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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