NichiDict

南蛮

なんばん
[nanban]

Meanings

1.Noun

southern barbarians (name used in ancient China for non-Chinese ethnic groups to the south)

2.Noun

South-East Asian countries (in the late-Muromachi and Edo periods)

3.Noun

Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal and their South-East Asian colonies; late-Muromachi and Edo periods)

4.NounPrefix

foreign (of goods from South-East Asia and Western Europe); exotic (esp. in a Western European or South-East Asian style)

5.Noun

chili pepper

6.Noun

food, cookingnanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions

7.Noun

thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm; in kabuki, dance, puppetry, etc.)