pizza

See also Pizza

English

A pizza.

Alternative forms

Wikipedia

• pitza (South African English)

Etymology

First coined 1935, from Italian pizza, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Byzantine Greek πίττα (pitta, “cake, pie”), from Ancient Greek πίσσα (pissa, “pitch”), Attic πίττα (pitta), from πεπτός (peptos, “cooked”) or from Langobardic pizza ("bit, bite").

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpiːtsə/

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Noun

pizza (countable and uncountable; plural pizzas or pizze)

1. (uncountable) A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit

   a slice of pizza

   a pizza pie

   Want to go out for pizza tonight?

2. (countable) A single instance of this dish

   He ate a whole pizza!

   Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner?

Usage notes

• In phrases like pizza bread and pizza bagel, pizza refers to the toppings.

Synonyms

• pizza pie

Derived terms

Terms derived from pizza

pizza bone pizza cutter pizza face

pizza man pizza parlor pizza puff

pizza wheel pizzeria sheet pizza

Translations

baked Italian dish

Afrikaans: pizza (af) Arabic: بيتزا (ar) (biitza) f., بيتسا (ar) (biitsa) f., فطيرة (ar) (faTiira) f., بتزة (ar) (bítza, bátza) f. Armenian: պիցցա (hy) (pic’c’a) Basque: pizza (eu) Belarusian: піца (be) (píca) f. Bosnian: pica (bs) f. Bulgarian: пица (bg) (píca) f. Catalan: pizza (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 比薩餅 (cmn), 比萨饼 (cmn) (bǐsà-bǐng); 薄餅 (cmn), 薄饼 (cmn) (báobǐng); 意大利餡餅 (cmn), 意大利馅饼 (cmn) (Yìdàlì-xiànbǐng), 比薩 (zh), 比萨 (zh) (bǐsà), pizza (colloquial, slang) Czech: pizza (cs) f. Danish: pizza (da) c. Dutch: pizza (nl) m. Esperanto: pico (eo) Finnish: pizza (fi), pitsa (fi) French: pizza (fr) f. German: Pizza (de) f. Greek: πίτσα (el) (pitsa) f. Hebrew: פיצה (he) (pítsa) f. Hindi: पिज़ा (hi) (pizā) m., पिज़्ज़ा (hi) (pizzā) m. Icelandic: flatbaka (is) f., pítsa (is) f., pitsa (is) f. (sometimes spelled pizza (is)) Interlingua: pizza (ia) Irish: píotsa (ga) m.

Italian: pizza (it) f. Japanese: ピザ (ja) (piza), ピッツァ (ja) (pittsa) Korean: 피자 (ko) (pija), 피차 (ko) (picha) Lojban: iptsa Luxembourgish: Pizza (lb) f. Macedonian: пица (mk) (píca) f. Maltese: pizza (mt) f. Norwegian: pizza (no) Persian: پیتزا (fa) (pitzâ) Polish: pizza (pl) Portuguese: pizza (pt) f. Romanian: pizza (ro) f. Russian: пицца (ru) (pícca) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: пица f. Roman: pica f. Slovene: pica (sl) f., pizza (sl) f. Spanish: pizza (es) f. Swedish: pizza (sv) c. Tamil: வேகப்பம் (ta) (vEgappam) Turkish: pizza (tr) Ukrainian: піца (uk) (píca) f. Urdu: پیزا (ur) (pizā) m. Vietnamese: bánh pizza (vi) Welsh: pitsa (cy)

a single instance of that dish

Catalan: pizza (ca) f. Greek: πίτσα (el) (pitsa) f.

Spanish: pizza (es) f.

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Catalan

Wikipedia ^ca

Etymology

From Italian pizza.

Noun

pizza f. (plural pizzes)

1. pizza

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Czech

Noun

pizza f.

1. pizza

Related terms

• pizzerie f.

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Danish

Etymology

From Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pitsa/, [ˈpʰid̥sa]

Noun

pizza c. (singular definite pizzaen, plural indefinite pizzaer)

1. pizza [from 1957]

Inflection

    Inflection of pizza

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	pizza	pizzaen	pizzaer	pizzaerne
genitive	pizzas	pizzaens	pizzaers	pizzaernes

External links

• Pizza on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Noun

pizza f. (plural pizza's, diminutive pizzaatje)

1. pizza

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Finnish

Alternative forms

• pitsa

Noun

pizza

1. pizza

Declension

Declension of pizza (type kala) singular plural nominative pizza pizzat genitive pizzan pizzojen pizzain1 partitive pizzaa pizzoja accusative pizza pizzan pizzat inessive pizzassa pizzoissa elative pizzasta pizzoista illative pizzaan pizzoihin adessive pizzalla pizzoilla ablative pizzalta pizzoilta allative pizzalle pizzoille essive pizzana pizzoina translative pizzaksi pizzoiksi instructive – pizzoin abessive pizzatta pizzoitta comitative – pizzoineen 1) Rare.

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French

Noun

pizza f. (plural pizzas)

1. pizza

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Icelandic

Alternative forms

• pítsa (standard)
• pitsa

Noun

pizza f. (genitive singular pizzu, plural pizzur)

1. pizza

Declension

declension of pizza

f-w1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pizza	pizzan	pizzur	pizzurnar
accusative	pizzu	pizzuna	pizzur	pizzurnar
dative	pizzu	pizzunni	pizzum	pizzunum
genitive	pizzu	pizzunnar	pizza	pizzanna

Usage notes

This spelling is nonstandard, and considered foreign, as it does not fit Icelandic orthography, but is widely used by restaurants, etc. The more correct Icelandic spelling is pítsa, although many conservationists discourage using this word at all, preferring flatbaka (literally, flat pie).

Synonyms

• (pizza): flatbaka

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Interlingua

Noun

pizza (plural pizzas)

1. pizza

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpit.tsa/, SAMPA: /"pit.tsa/

Noun

pizza f. (plural pizze)

1. pizza
2. (colloquial) bore

Related terms

• pizzaiola
• pizzaiolo
• pizzeria
• pizzetta
• pizzoso

Anagrams

• pazzi

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Polish

Etymology

From Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈpit͡st͡sa]

Noun

pizza f.

1. pizza

Declension

    declension of pizza

	singular	plural
nominative	pizza	pizze
genitive	pizzy	pizz
dative	pizzy	pizzom
accusative	pizzę	pizze
instrumental	pizzą	pizzami
locative	pizzy	pizzach
vocative	pizzo	pizze

Related terms

• pizzeria

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• piza

Etymology

From Italian

Noun

pizza f. (plural pizzas)

1. pizza

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Spanish

Etymology

Italian pizza.

Noun

pizza f. (plural pizzas)

1. pizza

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpitˌsa/

Noun

pizza c.

1. pizza

Declension

Declension of pizza

	singular		plural
c	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pizza	pizzan	pizzor	pizzorna
genitive	pizzas	pizzans	pizzors	pizzornas

Derived terms

• pizzabagare
• pizzeria

See also

• lägga en pizza
• pizzasallad