curry
English
/ˈkʌ.ɹi/, /ˈkʌ.ɹi/
noun
Definitions
- One of a family of dishes originating from South Asian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce.
- A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavoured with curry powder.
- curry Curry powder.
Etymology
Borrowed from Tamil கறி (curry) derived from Middle English cury (cooking) derived from Middle French cuyre (cook) derived from Latin cocere, coquere.
Origin
Latin
coquere
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- comb English
- cook English
- curry muncher English
- currycomb English
- curryless English
- currylike English
- currymuncher English
- currywurst English
- cuzza English
- muncher English
- uncurry English
- *cocere Latin
- *coctiāre Latin
- *cocēre Latin
- cocere Latin
- coquere Latin
- Curry German
- Curryketchup German
- Currysoße German
- Currywurst German
- curry Dutch, Flemish
- curryketchup Dutch, Flemish
- curryworst Dutch, Flemish
- kerrie Dutch, Flemish
- curry French
- карри Russian
- curry Spanish, Castilian
- karri Norwegian Bokmål
- koke Norwegian Bokmål
- *kukōną Proto-Germanic
- カレー Japanese
- curry Polish
- karri Norwegian Nynorsk
- cury Middle English
- curaí Irish
- karri Danish
- karry Danish
- cuire Old French
- curri Catalan, Valencian
- karrí Icelandic
- kari Indonesian
- koquar Ido
- cà ri Vietnamese
- cuyre Middle French
- 咖哩 Chinese
- 咖喱 Chinese
- karí Slovak
- còire Occitan
- 커리 Korean
- *kʷekʷō Proto-Italic
- ukhali Zulu
- kare Marshallese
- koken German Low German
- கறி Tamil
- kari Mauritian Creole
- kori Hausa
- kari Brunei Malay
- kari Seychellois Creole