puree

See also: purée and Püree

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French purée.

Alternative forms

• purée

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjʊəɹeɪ/, /pjʊəˈɹeɪ/

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Noun

puree (countable and uncountable, plural purees)

1. A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid or paste.

   Tomato sauce is generally a puree.

Related terms

• pomme puree

Translations

food that has been ground into a thick liquid

• Bulgarian: пюре́ n (pjuré)
• Catalan: puré (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 菜泥 (càiní), (fruit) 果泥 (zh) (guǒní), (meat) 肉泥 (ròuní), (mashed potatoes) 馬鈴薯泥／马铃薯泥 (zh) (mǎlíngshǔ ní)

• Dutch: puree (nl) f
• Esperanto: kaĉo (eo), pureo
• Finnish: pyree (fi), sose (fi)
• French: purée (fr) f
• German: Püree (de) n
• Greek: πουρές (el) m (pourés)
• Hungarian: püré (hu), pép (hu)
• Hunsrik: Piree n
• Ido: pureo (io)
• Italian: purè (it) m, passata (it) f
• Japanese: ピューレ (pyūre), ピュレ (pyure)
• Kazakh: езбе (ezbe)
• Korean: 퓌레 (pwire)
• Kyrgyz: эзме (ky) (ezme)
• Mongolian: нухаш (mn) (nuxaš)
• Norman: puthée f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: puré (no) m

  Nynorsk: puré m

• Persian: پوره (fa) (pure)
• Polish: purée (pl)
• Portuguese: puré (pt)
• Romanian: pireu (ro) n
• Russian: пюре́ (ru) n (pjurɛ́)
• Slovene: pire (sl) m
• Spanish: puré (es) m
• Ukrainian: пюре́ n (pjuré)

Verb

puree (third-person singular simple present purees, present participle pureeing, simple past and past participle pureed)

1. To crush or grind food into a puree.

Translations

to crush or grind food into a puree

• Bulgarian: пасирам (pasiram)
• Finnish: soseuttaa (fi)
• German: pürieren (de)
• Hungarian: pépesít (hu), passzíroz (hu), pürét készít
• Spanish: pasar (es), machacar (es)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindi पूरी (pūrī, “a kind of pancake”).

Alternative forms

• poori
• puri

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʊəɹiː/

Noun

puree (plural purees)

1. A type of unleavened bread from South Asia.

Anagrams

• rupee

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French purée, from Middle French puree, from Old French puree, from Latin pūrō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pyˈreː/

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• Hyphenation: pu‧ree
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

puree f (plural purees, diminutive pureetje n)

1. puree

Derived terms

• aardappelpuree
• pureren
• tomatenpuree

Related terms

• puur

Finnish

Verb

puree

1. third-person singular present indicative of purra

Anagrams

• rupee

Italian

Noun

puree f

1. plural of purea