1. A portable charcoal-burning brazier with a grill, used chiefly for cooking.
2. A Japanese dish of meat, fish, and/or vegetables cooked on a large griddle usually built into or near the diner's table
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).