omelette

English

An omelette.

Alternative forms

• omelet (chiefly US)

Etymology

From French omelette, from alemette, from alemelle (“knife blade”), probably derived from la lemelle, from Latin lamella (“thin plate”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɒm.lɪt/, X-SAMPA: /"Qm.lIt/

• Audio (UK)

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• (Australia) IPA: /ˈɔm.lət/

• (US) IPA: /ˈɑm.ə.lɪt/, /ˈɑm.lɪt/, X-SAMPA: /"Am@lIt/, /"AmlIt/

Noun

Wikipedia omelette (plural omelettes)

1. A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with cheese, chives or other foodstuffs

Derived terms

• you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs

Translations

dish made with beaten eggs

• Arabic: عجة (ar) (ʿújja) f
• Armenian: ձվածեղ (hy) (jvaçeġ)
• Azeri: qayğanaq (az)
• Catalan: truita (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煎蛋饼 (cmn) (jiāndànbǐng)

• Czech: omeleta (cs) f
• Danish: omelet (da) c
• Dutch: omelet (nl) f
• Esperanto: omleto (eo)
• Estonian: omlett (et)
• Finnish: munakas (fi), omeletti (fi)
• French: omelette (fr) f
• Georgian: ომლეტი (ka) (omleti)
• German: Omelett (de) n
• Greek: ομελέτα (el) (omeléta)
• Hebrew: חביתה (he) (havita) f
• Hungarian: omlett (hu), tojáslepény (hu)
• Ido: omleto (io)
• Indonesian: ‎telur dadar
• Interlingua: omelette (ia)
• Irish: uibheagán (ga) m

• Italian: omleta (it) f, frittata (it) f
• Japanese: オムレツ (ja) (omuretsu)
• Korean: 오믈렛 (ko) (omeullet, omeulles-)
• Macedonian: омлет (mk) (ómlet) m, кајгана (mk) (kájgana) f
• Malay: telur dadar (ms)
• Maltese: froġa (mt)
• Norwegian: omelett (no) m
• Polish: omlet (pl) m
• Portuguese: omelete (pt) f, fritada (pt) f
• Romanian: omletă (ro)
• Russian: омлет (ru) (omlét) m, яичница (ru) (jaíčnica) f
• Scottish Gaelic: bonnach-uighe (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: омлет (sh)

  Roman: omlet (sh)

• Spanish: tortilla (es) f (Spain), tortilla de huevos (es)
• Swedish: omelett (sv) c
• Thai: ไข่เจียว (th) (kài jieow)
• Turkish: omlet (tr)
• Vietnamese: món trứng tráng (vi)
• Volapük: moelät (vo)

See also

• Omelette on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɔm.lɛt/, X-SAMPA: /OmlEt/

Noun

omelette f (plural omelettes)

1. omelette

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Interlingua

Noun

omelette (plural omelettes)

1. omelette