cuisine

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”). More details: see there.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kwɪˈziːn/, X-SAMPA: /kwI"zi:n/

Noun

cuisine (plural cuisines)

1. a characteristic style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin

   French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant styles of cooking.

   The restaurant is noted for its excellent cuisine.

Synonyms

• (characteristic style of preparing food): culinary art, kitchen

Derived terms

• haute cuisine
• nouvelle cuisine

Related terms

• curry

Translations

characteristic style of preparing food

• Arabic: طبخ (ar) (Tabkh), طبيخ (ar) (Tabiikh) m, مطبخ (ar) (maTbakh) m
• Armenian: խոհանոց (hy) (xohanoc’)
• Basque: sukaldaritza (eu)
• Catalan: cuina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烹飪法 (cmn), 烹饪法 (cmn) (pēngrènfǎ), (of specific cuisine) 餐 (cmn) (cān)

• Danish: køkken (da)
• Dutch: keuken (nl) f and m
• Finnish: keittiö (fi)
• French: cuisine (fr) f
• German: Küche (de) f
• Greek: μαγειρική (el) (mageirikí) f, κουζίνα (el) (kouzína) f

• Hebrew: מטבח (mit'bakh) m
• Italian: cucina (it) f, culinaria (it) f
• Japanese: 料理 (ja) (りょうり, ryōri), 割烹 (ja) (kappō)
• Korean: 요리 (ko) (yori) (料理 (ko)), (North Korea) 료리 (ko) (ryori)
• Macedonian: кујна (mk) (kújna) f
• Polish: kuchnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: cozinha (pt) f, culinária (pt) f
• Russian: кухня (ru) (kúxnja) f
• Serbo-Croatian: kuhinja (sh) f
• Spanish: cocina (es) f
• Swedish: kök n, matkultur c, kokkonst c
• Turkish: mutfak (tr)

See also

• gastronomy

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French

Etymology

From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *cocīna, from Latin coquīna, whence also Catalan cuina, Galician cociña, Italian cucina, Portuguese cozinha, Spanish cocina, and ultimately English kitchen, Dutch keuken and German Küche).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɥi.zin/

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Noun

cuisine f (plural cuisines)

1. kitchen

   Brian est dans la cuisine — Brian is in the kitchen.

2. cuisine

   J’aime la cuisine française.