Word.ws English Dictionary

samgyeopsal

UK/ˈsamɡjʌpsal/US/sæmˌɡjəpˌsɑl/

samgyeopsal noun: a Korean dish of sliced pork belly that is typically cooked at the table.

Noun

samgyeopsal (uncountable)

  1. A Korean dish of sliced pork belly that is typically cooked at the table.
    • The best part of eating in a samgyeopsal restaurant is the atmosphere – a rollicking party punctuated by soju shots, pork strips sizzling on a grill and shouts for “one more serving, please!”2023 June 29, Violet Kim, “Korean food: 39 dishes we can’t live without”, in CNN
  2. (Philippines, broadly) A Korean-style restaurant where servings of meat and rice can be requested repeatedly within an allotted time period, with patrons cooking their food at the table.

Origin of samgyeopsal

Borrowed from Korean 삼겹살 (samgyeopsal, literally “three-layered meat”), referring to the layered appearance of the fat.

Questions about samgyeopsal

What does samgyeopsal mean?
Samgyeopsal means a Korean dish of sliced pork belly that is typically cooked at the table.
What part of speech is samgyeopsal?
Samgyeopsal is a noun.
How do you pronounce samgyeopsal?
Samgyeopsal is pronounced /ˈsamɡjʌpsal/ (UK).

Words near samgyeopsal in the dictionary

  1. samfowlerite
  2. samfu
  3. samfus
  4. samgha
  5. samghas
  6. samgyeopsal
  7. samgyetang
  8. Samh
  9. Samhain
  10. samhainophobe
  11. samhainophobes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: samgyeopsal (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “samgyeopsal.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/samgyeopsal. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.