Mirin Definition

mĭrĭn
noun
A sweet Japanese rice wine used especially in cooking.
American Heritage

Origin of Mirin

  • Japanese mi flavor (from Early Middle Chinese mujh) (also the source of Mandarin wèi) rin variant reading of the kanji for ran to remove the astringency of persimmons by soaking in rice wine (from Middle Chinese lam´) due to misreading as rin to strain, filter (from Middle Chinese lim`) because of the two terms' similarity in meaning and the resemblance of their kanji

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Japanese kanji: 味醂; hiragana: みりん

    From Wiktionary

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