noun
General term for a cooking pot or pan, including saucepans and deep pots. Used for boiling, stewing, and simmering.
鍋にお湯を沸かしてください。
Please boil water in the pot.
この鍋は焦げ付きにくい。
This pan is hard to burn things in.
noun, noun, used as a suffix
Abbreviation of 鍋料理 (nabe ryouri). Refers to a Japanese-style hot pot dish where ingredients are cooked in a communal pot at the table. Often used as a suffix in names of specific hot pot dishes (e.g., 寄せ鍋, ちゃんこ鍋).
See also: 鍋料理
今夜は鍋にしよう。
Let's have hot pot tonight.
寒い日は寄せ鍋が食べたくなる。
On cold days, I crave yosenabe.
Native Japanese word. The kanji 鍋 is a phono-semantic compound: 金 (metal) + 咼 (a phonetic component). The reading なべ is kun'yomi.