パンケーキ
ぱんけーき
noun
pancake
1.
pancake (esp. American/Western style)
A round, flat cake cooked on a griddle, typically eaten for breakfast or as a dessert with butter, syrup, fruit, or whipped cream. Distinguished in Japanese usage from {ホットケーキ}, which is the older term and tends to refer to a thicker, simpler version.
パンケーキを食べた。
I ate pancakes.
朝食にパンケーキを焼いた。
I made pancakes for breakfast.
ふわふわのパンケーキにメープルシロップをたっぷりかけて食べた。
I ate fluffy pancakes generously topped with maple syrup.
From English 'pancake'. Once interchangeable with ホットケーキ, the word came into wider use in Japan in the 2010s with the spread of café-style fluffy and souffle-style pancakes.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- パンケーキを焼く: to cook pancakes
- ふわふわのパンケーキ: fluffy pancakes
- パンケーキミックス: pancake mix
- メープルシロップをかける: to pour on maple syrup
SIMILAR WORDS:
- ホットケーキ: hotcake — the older, more home-cooking term; tends to mean a thicker, plainer cake
- どら焼き: dorayaki — a Japanese sweet of two small pancakes filled with sweet bean paste
- クレープ: crepe — much thinner, French-style