also: ピッツァ · ピッツア
pizza
Ordinary noun for the food. ピザ is the everyday spelling; ピッツァ may sound a little closer to the Italian pronunciation or more menu-like.
from Italian
I ate pizza with friends on the weekend.
I ordered pizza for dinner.
This restaurant's margherita pizza is popular.
fat, ugly person
Derogatory Internet slang referring insultingly to a fat or unattractive person. It is offensive and should not be used about someone.
Calling someone piza online is insulting.
Baking pizza in a stone oven is my hobby.
That shop delivers pizza within 30 minutes.
pizzeria; pizza place; pizza parlor
pizza oven
pizza manjū; steamed bun with pizza filling
pizza dough; pizza crust
delivery pizza; home-delivered pizza
Most common everyday katakana spelling.
More Italian-like spelling and pronunciation; also high-priority supported.
Variant katakana spelling given; less common than ピザ and ピッツァ.
The food word is a katakana loanword from Italian pizza. The derogatory Internet-slang sense is a later figurative use; the exact development is not specified.