canapé
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French canapé. Doublet of canopy and conopeum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]canapé (plural canapés)
- An hors d’oeuvre, a bite-sized open-faced sandwich made of thin bread or toast topped with savory garnish.
- A piece of furniture similar to a couch or settee, an elegant sofa.
- 1908, Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis, New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, page 29:
- Oliver was sitting on the edge of the canapé, swinging one leg over the other; and he stopped abruptly and stared, and then sank back, laughing softly to himself.
Translations
[edit]a bite-sized slice open-faced sandwich
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elegant sofa
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Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Noun
[edit]canapé m (plural canapés)
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French canapé. Attested since the 18th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]canapé m (plural canapés, diminutive canapeetje n)
- canapé (food)
- canapé (furniture)
- 1966 [1951], Annie M.G. Schmidt, “Tante Trui en Tante Toosje [Aunt Trui and Aunt Toosje]”, in De spin Sebastiaan [Sebastian the Spider][1], Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers, page 57:
- 't Water steeg en bleef maar stijgen / en de hele kanapee / ging toen langzaam aan het drijven / en de tantes dreven mee.
- The water rose and kept rising / and the entire canapé / slowly went afloat / and the aunts floated along with it.
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French conopé, conope (later altered in form and meaning based on Medieval Latin canāpēum, alteration of canōpēum (“mosquito net”)), itself from Latin cōnōpēum (“seat with a canopy”), from Ancient Greek κωνωπεῖον (kōnōpeîon), from κώνωψ (kṓnōps, “mosquito”). Cognate with English canopy.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]canapé m (plural canapés)
- sofa
- piece of bread covered with some savory (finger) food
- nibble (small bits of food, e.g. at a party)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Albanian: kanape
- → Alemannic German: Kanepe
- → Belarusian: кана́па (kanápa)
- → Catalan: canapè
- → Czech: kanape
- → Danish: kanapé, kanape, canapé, canape
- → English: canapé
- → Egyptian Arabic: كنبة (kanaba)
- → Finnish: kanapee
- → German: Kanapee, Canapé
- → Hungarian: kanapé
- → Greek: καναπές (kanapés)
- → Gulf Arabic: قنفة (qanafa)
- Haitian Creole: kanape
- → Hijazi Arabic: كنبة (kanaba)
- → Italian: canapè
- → Iraqi Arabic: قنفة (qanafa)
- → Japanese: カナッペ (kanappe)
- → Korean: 카나페 (kanape)
- → Northern Kurdish: qenepe
- → Lithuanian: kanapa
- → Macedonian: канабе (kanabe)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kanapé, kanape
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kanape
- → Ottoman Turkish: قاناپه (kanape)
- → Persian: کاناپه (kânâpe)
- → Polish: kanapa
- → Portuguese: canapé
- → Romanian: canapea
- → Russian: канапе́ (kanapé)
- → Spanish: canapé
- → Tagalog: kanape
- → Swedish: kanapé
- → Turkish: kanepe
- → Ukrainian: кана́па (kanápa)
- → Vilamovian: kanapē
References
[edit]- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
- H. H. Mallinckrodt, Latijn Nederlands woordenboek (Aula n° 24), Utrecht-Antwerpen, Spectrum, 1959 [Latin - Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
Further reading
[edit]- “canapé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French canapé.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛ
- Hyphenation: ca‧na‧pé
Noun
[edit]canapé m (plural canapés)
References
[edit]- ^ “canapé”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “canapé”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]canapé m (plural canapés)
- canapé (food)
- canapé (furniture)
- snack food
Descendants
[edit]- → Tagalog: kanape
Further reading
[edit]- “canapé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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