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hi⋅ba⋅chi

[hi-bah-chee]
–noun
a small Japanese-style charcoal brazier covered with a grill, usually used for outdoor cooking.

Origin:
1860–65; < Japn, equiv. to hi fire (earlier fi(y) < *poi) +-bachi comb. form of hachi pot, earlier fati < MChin, akin to Chin monk's bowl; perh. < Pali patta < Skt ptra drinking vessel
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hi·ba·chi   (hĭ-bä'chē)   
n.   pl. hi·ba·chis
A portable charcoal-burning brazier with a grill, used chiefly for cooking.

[Japanese : hi, fire + bachi, bowl (from Middle Chinese pat, puat, Buddhist monk's begging bowl, from Sanskrit pātram, cup, bowl; see pō(i)- in Indo-European roots).]
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Word Origin & History

hibachi 
1863, from Japanese hibachi "firepot," from hi "fire" + hachi "bowl, pot."
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