ramen
UK/ˈɹɑːmən/
ramen noun: soup noodles of wheat, with various ingredients (Japanese-Chinese style).
Noun
ramen (countable and uncountable, plural ramens)
- Soup noodles of wheat, with various ingredients (Japanese-Chinese style).
- A founder’s first goal, Graham wrote, is becoming “ramen profitable”: spending thriftily and making just enough to afford ramen noodles for dinner.2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker
- A type of instant noodles.
Interjection
- amen
- [...] For thine is the colander, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. RAmen.2005, Mel Sharples, “Prayer In City Council Meetings??”, in ott.general (Usenet)
- … For thine are Meatballs, and the beer, and the strippers, for ever and ever. RAmen.2006, bg1...@apexmail.com, A Pastafarian's prayer, alt.atheism
ramen meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
ramen in Hindi
- soup noodles of wheat, with various ingredients (Chinese-Japanese style)
- रामेन rāmen
ramen in Tamil
- soup noodles of wheat, with various ingredients (Chinese-Japanese style)
- றாமென் ṟāmeṉ
ramen in Marathi
- soup noodles of wheat, with various ingredients (Chinese-Japanese style)
- रामेन rāmen
ramen in Urdu
- soup noodles of wheat, with various ingredients (Chinese-Japanese style)
- رامین rāmen
More languagesFewer languages
- ramen in Bengali
- রামেন, রমেন
- ramen in Telugu
- రామెన్
- ramen in Punjabi
- ਰਾਮੇਨ
- ramen in Gujarati
- રામેન, રેમેન
- ramen in Odia
- ରାମେନ, ରାମେନ୍
- ramen in Sinhala
- රාමෙන් rāmen
- ramen in Nepali
- रामेन
- ramen in Tagalog
- ramen
- ramen in Arabic
- رَامِن rāmin, رَامَن rāman
- ramen in Persian
- رامن râmen
- ramen in Thai
- ราเม็ง raa-meng
Examples of ramen in a sentence
- Their new company was ramen profitable, and the founders could feed themselves while they worked on expansion.
- Add one cup of hot water, wait a minute, and boom — your cup of ramen is ready.
- One reason is that regulated startups struggle to fit into the model of “ramen profitable.”
Forms of ramen
| plural | ramens |
|---|---|
| alternative form | lamen |
| alternative form | rāmen |
Origin of ramen
Borrowed from Japanese ラーメン (rāmen), from Mandarin 拉麵 /拉面 (lāmiàn, “pulled noodles”). Doublet of laghman, lamian, and ramyeon.
Words formed from ramen
Words that rhyme with ramen
Questions about ramen
- What does ramen mean?
- Ramen means soup noodles of wheat, with various ingredients (Japanese-Chinese style).
- What is ramen in Hindi?
- Ramen in Hindi is रामेन (rāmen). See Ramen meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ramen?
- Ramen can be a noun or an interjection.
- How do you pronounce ramen?
- Ramen is pronounced /ˈɹɑːmən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of ramen?
- The plural of ramen is ramens.
Words near ramen in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ramen (page history and authors); ramen (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ramen (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ramen (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ramen (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ramen (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ramen (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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