ramen

• lamen
• rāmen

Borrowed from Japanese ラーメン (rāmen), from Mandarin 拉麵／拉面 (lāmiàn, “pulled noodles”). Doublet of laghman, lamian, and ramyeon.

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɑːmən/
• Rhymes: -ɑːmən

ramen (countable and uncountable, plural ramens)

1. Soup noodles of wheat, with various ingredients (Japanese-Chinese style)
   • 2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker‎:

     A founder’s first goal, Graham wrote, is becoming “ramen profitable”: spending thriftily and making just enough to afford ramen noodles for dinner.

2. A type of instant noodles.

ramen (not comparable)

1. (Pastafarianism, humorous) amen
   • 2005, Mel Sharples, “Prayer In City Council Meetings??”, in ott.general (Usenet):

     [...] For thine is the colander, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. RAmen.

   • 2006, bg1...@apexmail.com, A Pastafarian's prayer, alt.atheism:

     [...] For thine are Meatballs, and the beer, and the strippers, for ever and ever. RAmen.

   • 2006, Roger Bryant, “Re: Is this all?”, in alt.religion.pastafarianism (Usenet):

     They will let me wear The Chosen Attire at work, however. Ramen.

   • 2008, Terry, Re: We do not have a 'soul' = an immaterial and immortal piece, alt.agnosticism:

     No, no, no! Until YOU stand before His Noodliness when you die. And if you do not believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster (RAmen brother!) then you will not get to partake of the beer volcanoes, nor enjoy the strippers in Heaven.

   • 2008, DuhIdiot, Re: Let's sanitize song lyrics by removing references to religious garbage, alt.atheism:

     YHWH" = tetragrammaton. "FSM" = tetrazziniton. Ramen.

   • 2009, JFlexer, MAN PRAYS TO FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER (plus other March 4 FlashNews.com Shorts), alt.gossip.celebrities:

     May the Fork be with you... RAmen.

• Armen-, Erman, Maner, Maren, Marne, Merna, enarm, namer, re-man, reman

• IPA^(key): [ˈramɛn]

ramen n

1. genitive plural of rameno

• IPA^(key): /ˈraːmə(n)/
• Rhymes: -aːmən

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From Middle Dutch ramen (“to aim, to strive for, to guess”), possibly from Old Dutch *rāmon, from Proto-Germanic *rēmijaną, *rēmāną, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to set in motion, move about”), as in English roam.

ramen

1. (transitive) to make an estimate
2. (transitive) to fix an estimate, to budget

   Het project kost 6 keer meer dan geraamd.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   The project cost 6 times more than estimated.

3. (transitive, obsolete) to guess, to reckon, to deduce
4. (transitive, obsolete) to take aim (at), to watch, to observe
5. (transitive, obsolete) to hit

• (make an estimate): schatten
• (fix an estimate): begroten

• ramer
• raming
• raamdag
• raamwijs
• beramen
• naramen

From Middle Dutch ramen. Equivalent to raam +‎ -en.

ramen

1. (transitive) to stretch on a frame, as done with cloth to be dried
2. (transitive) to arrange bushels of cereals on the field in a certain way
3. (transitive) to tie a bird's wings together to prevent it flying away

• ramer
• opramen
• uitramen

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ramen

1. plural of raam

Borrowed from Japanese ラーメン (rāmen), from Mandarin 拉麵／拉面 (lāmiàn, “pulled noodles”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɑ(ː)men/, [ˈrɑ̝(ː)me̞n]
• Rhymes: -ɑmen
• Syllabification^(key): ra‧men

ramen

1. ramen

• “ramen”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Borrowed from Japanese ラーメン (rāmen), from Mandarin 拉麵／拉面 (lāmiàn, “pulled noodles”).

ramen m (invariable)

1. ramen

• marne, menar

Borrowed from Japanese ラーメン (rāmen), from Mandarin 拉麵／拉面 (lāmiàn, “pulled noodles”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹɑːmən/
• Rhymes: -ɑːmən

ramen (plural ramen-ramen, informal 1st possessive ramenku, 2nd possessive ramenmu, 3rd possessive ramennya)

1. Japanese soup noodles.

Borrowed from Japanese ラーメン (rāmen), from Mandarin 拉麵／拉面 (lāmiàn, “pulled noodles”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.mɛn/

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• Rhymes: -amɛn
• Syllabification: ra‧men

ramen m inan

1. ramen (noodle soup dish)

• ramen in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• lamen

Borrowed from Japanese ラーメン (rāmen), from Mandarin 拉麵／拉面 (lāmiàn, “pulled noodles”).

ramen m (uncountable)

1. ramen (Japanese soup noodles)

   Synonym: miojo

Borrowed from Japanese ラーメン (rāmen), from Mandarin 拉麵／拉面 (lāmiàn, “pulled noodles”).

ramen m (uncountable)

1. ramen (Japanese soup noodles)

ramen c

1. definite singular of ram

• Maren, armen, menar

Borrowed from Japanese ラーメン (rāmen), from Mandarin 拉麵／拉面 (lāmiàn, “pulled noodles”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾamen/, [ˈɾa.mɛn]
• Hyphenation: ra‧men

ramen (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜋᜒᜈ᜔)

1. ramen (Japanese dish)

• “ramen”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Borrowed from Japanese ラーメン (rāmen), from Mandarin 拉麵／拉面 (lāmiàn, “pulled noodles”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾa.mɛn/
• Hyphenation: ra‧men

ramen (definite accusative rameni, plural ramenler)

1. ramen

• IPA^(key): /ɾaːˈmɛn/
• Hyphenation: ra‧men

ramen

1. Misspelling of rağmen.

ramen

1. driver