イクラ

See also: いくら

Japanese
イクラ (ikura): salmon roe on a sushi roll.

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian икра́ (ikrá, “fish eggs, caviar”).[1][2][3][4]

First cited in Japanese in 1928.[5] Appears to have displaced older 鮞 (hararago, “roe, particularly salmon roe”).

May have first been used as a caviar replacement by Russian soldiers during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05). Introduced to the Japanese market in the mid-1920s at the start of the Shōwa era as a kind of カビア (kabia), the older form of modern キャビア (kyabia, “caviar”).[5]

Pronunciation

Noun

イクラ • (ikura) 

  1. [from 1928] salmon roe, salmon eggs (generally refers to roe removed from the ovary)
    Synonyms: 鮞 (hararago), 筋子 (sujiko, generally refers to roe still in the ovary)

Descendants
  • → Indonesian: ikura

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  4. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. “イクラ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
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