dumpling

English

Shrimp dumplings.

Etymology

A folk word, first attested in c. 1600s, apparently from a Norfolk dialect, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from some Low German word or from dialectal dump (“lump”) (first attested in the late 1800s), +‎ -ling (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌmp.lɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmplɪŋ

Noun

dumpling (plural dumplings)

1. (cooking) A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough. [from 17th c.]
   1. By restriction, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.
2. (endearing) A term of endearment.

   My little dumpling.

3. (mildly vulgar) A piece of excrement.
   • 2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated

     Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:dumpling

Derived terms

• apple dumpling
• apple-dumpling shop
• Chinese dumpling
• clootie dumpling
• crotch dumpling
• dumpling-depot
• dumpling squid
• hump dumpling
• Norfolk dumpling
• North Dumpling Island
• potato dumpling
• raspberry dumpling
• rice dumpling
• soup dumpling

 

Translations

food

• Afrikaans: kluitjie
• Albanian: brumçë (sq)
• Arabic: دَامْبْلِنْغ m (dāmblinḡ)
• Armenian: խմորագնդիկ (xmoragndik)
• Azerbaijani: klyotek, mantı
• Bashkir: манты (mantı)
• Belarusian: пяльме́нь m (pjalʹmjénʹ)
• Bulgarian: кне́дла (bg) f (knédla)
• Burmese: ပေါက်စီ (my) (paukci) (Chinese baozi), ဖက်ထုပ် (my) (hpakhtup)
• Catalan: mandonguilla (ca) f, nyoqui (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 餃子／饺子 (gaau² zi²)

  Dungan: бозы (bozɨ)

  Mandarin: 餃子／饺子 (zh) (jiǎozi)

• Czech: knedlík (cs) m, haluška f
• Danish: dumpling
• Dutch: knoedel (nl) m
• Esperanto: knedliko, pastobulo
• Estonian: klimp (et)
• Finnish: nyytti (fi) (wrapped), taikinanyytti (wrapped), myky (fi) (filling mixed in with dough)
• French: quenelle (fr) f, ravioli (fr) m
• Galician: bolo do pote m
• Georgian: პელმენი (ṗelmeni) (Russian pelmeni)
• German: Knödel (de) m, Kloß (de) m, Klops (de) m
• Hindi: गुलगुला (hi) (gulgulā)
• Hungarian: galuska (hu), nokedli (hu), gombóc (hu)
• Hunsrik: Klos m
• Icelandic: bögglar m pl, deigboltar m pl
• Italian: gnocco (it) m
• Japanese: 餃子 (ja) (ぎょうざ, gyōza), ギョーザ (ja) (gyōza)
• Kazakh: тұшпара (tūşpara), мәнті (mäntı)
• Korean: 만두 (ko) (mandu), 교자 (ko) (gyoja) (gyoza), 펠메니 (ko) (pelmeni) (Russian pelmeni)
• Kyrgyz: манты (ky) (mantı), мантуу (mantuu), чүчбара (ky) (cücbara)
• Lao: ກ້ຽວ (kiāu)
• Latin: globulus m, offa f
• Latvian: ķiļķens m, klimpa f
• Lithuanian: kukulis m, gružulis m, kankolas m, apskritainis m
• Luxembourgish: Kniddel f
• Macedonian: кне́дла f (knédla)
• Maori: motumotu
• Mongolian: банш (mn) (banš), бууз (mn) (buuz), ᠪᠠᠩᠰᠢ (baŋsi)
• Navajo: kʼíneeshbízhii
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: melbolle

• Persian: منتو (mantu), دامبلینگ (dâmpling)
• Polish: pieróg (pl) m
• Portuguese: bolinho (pt) m
• Russian: пельме́нь (ru) m (pelʹménʹ), клёцка (ru) f (kljócka) (no filling), галу́шка (ru) f (galúška) (no filling), манты́ (ru) f pl (mantý), манту́ (ru) f or n (mantú), маньто́у (ru) f or n (manʹtóu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нокла f, ноклица f, кне́дла m, кне́дл m, гомбоца f

  Roman: nokla (sh) f, noklica (sh) f, knédla (sh) m, knédl m, gomboca (sh) f

• Slovak: knedľa f, haluška f
• Slovene: cmok (sl) m
• Spanish: empanadilla (es) f, albóndiga (es) f, ñoqui (es) m
• Swedish: klimp (sv) c, knyte (sv) n, dumpling (sv) c, pirog (sv) c
• Tajik: тушбера (tušbera)
• Tatar: манты (mantı)
• Thai: เกี๊ยว (th) (gíao)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: mantı (tr)
• Tuvan: манчы (mançı)
• Ukrainian: варе́ник (uk) m (varényk), галу́шка (uk) f (halúška) (no filling), пирі́г (uk) m (pyríh) (Western Ukraine), ву́шко n (vúško)
• Uyghur: جۇۋاۋا (juwawa), بەنشىر (benshir), بەنشىرە (benshire), مانتا (manta)
• Uzbek: chuchvara (uz), manti (uz)
• Vietnamese: mằn thắn (vi), vằn thắn (vi), hoành thánh (vi)
• Yiddish: קניידל n (kneydl)

term of endearment

• Bulgarian: дундьо (dundjo)
• Finnish: kultamussukka (fi)
• French: chou (fr) m
• Portuguese: docinho m
• Russian: пы́шечка (ru) f (pýšečka), пы́шка (ru) f (pýška)
• Ukrainian: пампу́шечка f (pampúšečka), пампу́шка f (pampúška)

See also

• canederlo, gnocchi
• dim sim
• dim sum
• empanada
• har gow
• pierogi
• varenyky
• pelmeni
• quenelle
• ravioli
• shaomai, shumai
• wonton

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Further reading

• dumpling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia