lasagna

English

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A serving of lasagna

Alternative forms

• lasagne

Etymology

From Italian lasagna, lasagne, from Latin lasanum (“cooking pot”), from Ancient Greek λάσανον (lasanon, “trivet or stand for a pot”), pl. λάσανα (lasana). Others argue the Italian lasagna originally derived from the Arabic (Semitic) lawzinaj ("almond cake").

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA: /ləˈzɑ.njə/
• (UK) IPA: /ləˈzæn.jə/, /ləˈzɑː.njə/
• (US) IPA: /ləˈzɑ.njə/, /ləˈsɑ.njə/

Noun

lasagna (plural lasagnas or lasagne)

1. Flat sheet of pasta.
2. An Italian baked dish comprising layers of (1) with (usually) bolognese and bechamel sauce.

Usage notes

In Italian, lasagna refers to one sheet of pasta and lasagne (the plural of lasagna) refers to the dish with several layers. This distinction is rarely observed in English.

Translations

flat sheet of pasta

• Catalan: lasanya (ca) f
• Galician: lasaña (gl) f

• Portuguese: lasanha (pt) f

baked dish

• Arabic: اللازانيا (ar) (lazaanya) f
• Catalan: lasanya (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (no extact term exists) 意大利千層麵 (cmn), 意大利千层面 (cmn) (Yìdàlì qiāncéng miàn), 意大利滷汁麵條 (cmn), 意大利卤汁面条 (cmn) (Yìdàlì lǔzhī miàntiáo), 千層麵 (cmn), 千层面 (cmn) (qiāncéngmiàn)

• Danish: lasagne (da) c
• Dutch: lasagna (nl) m
• Finnish: lasagne (fi)
• French: lasagne (fr) f

• Galician: lasaña (gl) f
• German: Lasagne (de) f
• Icelandic: lasanja (is) n, lasagna (is) n
• Interlingua: lasagna
• Italian: lasagna (it)
• Japanese: ラザニア (ja) (razania)
• Korean: 라자냐 (ko) (lajanya)
• Portuguese: lasanha (pt) f
• Russian: лазанья (ru) (lazán'ja) f 
• Spanish: lasaña (es) f

Anagrams

• galanas

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /laˈzaɲːa/, /laˈsaɲːa/, X-SAMPA: /la"zaJ:a/, /la"saJ:a/
• Hyphenation: la‧sà‧gna
• Rhymes: -aɲɲa

Noun

lasagna f (plural lasagne)

1. a flat sheet of pasta