南蛮

なんばん

[nanban]

Definitions

1.noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

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

2.noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

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

3.noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

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

4.noun, used as a prefix

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

5.noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

chili pepper

6.noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions

7.noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

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