English [ edit ] Pronunciation [ edit ] Etymology 1 [ edit ] From Middle English sopere Old French soper sope ( “ soup ” ) . Compare French souper
supper (countable and uncountable plural suppers
Food consumed before going to bed .
1848 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray , chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. [ … ] (please specify |volume=I or II) , London: Bradbury and Evans , [ … ] 1849–1850 , →OCLC There he stood, with admirable patience, [ …] longing to go to rest for hours past; aware that suppers disagreed with him [ …] so tired and longing for bed!
Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening , rather than at noon .
We normally have supper at 7.
( Scotland , Northern Ireland , Northern England , slang ) meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips .
a pizza supper
2014 An Embarrassment of Riches :Roisin the savior paraded into the front room with three fish suppers , one sausage supper , one single fish, one single chips, a single sausage, a chicken and chips, and three curry and chips.
Synonyms [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ] Related terms [ edit ] Descendants [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] food before going to bed
Afrikaans: aandete (af)
Albanian: darkë (sq) f
Arabic: عَشَاء f ( ʕašāʔ )
Armenian: ընթրիք (hy) ( əntʻrikʻ )
Azerbaijani: şam yeməyi
Bashkir: киске аш ( kiske aş )
Belarusian: вячэ́ра f ( vjačéra )
Bengali: নৈশভোজ (bn) ( nōiśobhōj )
Bikol Central: pamanggi (bcl)
Bulgarian: вече́ря (bg) f ( večérja )
Burmese: ညစာ (my) ( nya.ca )
Catalan: sopar (ca) m
Cebuano: panihapon
Chechen: пхьор ( pḥʳor )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 夜宵 (zh) ( yèxiāo ) , 宵夜 (zh) ( xiāoyè ) , 晚餐 (zh) ( wǎncān ) , 晚飯 ／ 晚饭 (zh) ( wǎnfàn )
Czech: večeře (cs) f
Dalmatian: caina f
Danish: aftensmad (da) c
Dutch: avondeten (nl)
Estonian: õhtustama
Finnish: iltapala (fi)
French: souper (fr) m ( in French of France )
Galician: cea (gl) f
Georgian: ვახშამი ( vaxšami )
German: Nachtessen (de) n Nachtimbiss m Abendessen (de) n
Gothic: 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌰𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 m ( nahtamats )
Greek: απόδειπνο (el) n ( apódeipno )
Greenlandic: unnukkorsiut
Hindi: शाम का खाना m ( śām kā khānā ) , रात का खाना m ( rāt kā khānā )
Hungarian: vacsora (késői) (hu)
Icelandic: kvöldmatur (is) m
Indonesian: makan malam (id)
Ingrian: iltain
Ingush: пхьор ( pḥʳor )
Italian: cena (it) f desinare (it) m pasto serale m
Japanese: 夜食 (ja) ( やしょく, yashoku ) , 夜ご飯 ( よるごはん, yorugohan ) , 夕食 (ja) ( ゆうしょく, yūshoku )
Kazakh: кешкі ас ( keşkı as )
Khmer: អាហារពេលល្ងាច ( ʼaahaa peil lngiəc ) , បាយពេលល្ងាច ( baay peil lngiəc ) , សាយមាស ( saayaʼmiəh ) , បាយល្ងាច ( baay lngiəc )
Korean: 저녁밥 (ko) ( jeonyeokbap ) , 저녁 식사(食事) ( jeonyeok siksa ) , 야식(夜食) (ko) ( yasik ) , 밤참 (ko) ( bamcham ) , 석식(夕食) (ko) ( seoksik )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بەربانگ ( berbang )
Northern Kurdish: şîv (ku) f
Kyrgyz: кечки тамак ( kecki tamak )
Lao: ອາຫານຄ່ຳ ( ʼā hān kham ) , ອາຫານແລງ ( ʼā hān lǣng )
Latvian: vakariņas f pl naksniņas f pl ( very late )
Laz: ლიმჯინერი ჯარი ( limcineri cari )
Lithuanian: vakarienė f
Luganda: ekyeggulo
Macedonian: вечера f ( večera )
Malay: makan malam (ms)
Malayalam: അത്താഴം (ml) ( attāḻaṁ )
Maori: hapa
Mingrelian: ოსერიშე ( oseriše )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: оройн хоол ( orojn xool )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: aften (no) m aftensmat (no) m kvelds m kveldsmat (no) m kveldsmåltid n aftensmåltid n
Occitan: sopar (oc) m
Oromo: irbaata
Persian: شام (fa) ( šâm )
Plautdietsch: Owentkost n
Polish: kolacja (pl) f wieczerza (pl) f
Portuguese: ceia (pt) f
Romanian: cină (ro) f supeu (ro) n masă de seară f
Russian: у́жин (ru) m ( úžin ) , ве́черя (ru) f ( véčerja ) ( obsolete )
Sanskrit: नक्तभोजन (sa) n ( naktabhojana ) , सायमाशन n ( sāyamāśana ) , सायमास m ( sāyamāsa )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вѐчера f
Roman: vèčera (sh) f
Slovak: večera f
Slovene: večerja (sl) f južina f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: wjacerja f
Spanish: cena (es) f
Swedish: kvällsmat (sv)
Tagalog: hapunan gabihan
Tajik: шом (tg) ( šom )
Tarifit: amensi m
Thai: ข้าวเย็น (th) ( kâao-yen ) , อาหารเย็น ( aa-hǎan-yen )
Turkish: akşam yemeği (tr)
Turkmen: agşamlyk (tk)
Ukrainian: вече́ря f ( večérja )
Uyghur: كەچلىك تاماق ( kechlik tamaq )
Uzbek: kechki ovqat
Vietnamese: ăn tối
Yiddish: אָוונטברויט n ( ovntbroyt ) , וועטשערע f ( vetshere ) , קאָלאַציע f ( kolatsye )
dinner at night
Afrikaans: aandete (af)
Arabic: عَشَاء f ( ʕašāʔ )
Armenian: ընթրիք (hy) ( əntʻrikʻ )
Aromanian: tsinã f
Belarusian: вячэ́ра f ( vjačéra )
Bulgarian: вече́ря (bg) f ( večérja )
Catalan: sopar (ca) m
Cebuano: panihapon
Chinese:
Mandarin: 晚餐 (zh) ( wǎncān )
Czech: večeře (cs) f
Dalmatian: caina f
Danish: aftensmad (da)
Dutch: avondeten (nl)
Esperanto: vespermanĝo noktomanĝo
Finnish: illallinen (fi)
French: souper (fr)
Friulian: cene f
Galician: cea (gl) f
German: Abendessen (de) n
Gothic: 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌰𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 m ( nahtamats )
Greek: δείπνο (el) n ( deípno ) (before 8 PM, larger meal) , βραδινό (el) n ( vradinó ) (8 PM to before 11 PM, smaller meal)
Ancient: δόρπον n ( dórpon ) ( early usage ) , δεῖπνον n ( deîpnon ) ( later usage )
Higaonon: panihapon
Hungarian: vacsora (hu)
Irish: suipéar m
Italian: cena (it) f
Japanese: 夕食 (ja) ( ゆうしょく, yūshoku )
Korean: 저녁밥 (ko) ( jeonyeokbap ) , 저녁 식사(食事) ( jeonyeok siksa ) , 야식(夜食) (ko) ( yasik ) , 밤참 (ko) ( bamcham ) , 석식(夕食) (ko) ( seoksik )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: şîv (ku) f
Latin: cēna (la) f
Latvian: vakariņas f pl
Malayalam: അത്താഴം (ml) ( attāḻaṁ )
Maltese: ċena f
Maori: hapa
Norman: soupaïr m ( Guernsey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: aften (no) m aftensmat (no) m kvelds m kveldsmat (no) m kveldsmåltid n aftensmåltid n
Oromo: irbaata
Plautdietsch: Owentkost n
Polish: kolacja (pl) f
Portuguese: jantar (pt) m
Romanian: cină (ro) f supeu (ro) n masă de seară f
Romansch: tschaina f
Russian: у́жин (ru) m ( úžin )
Sardinian: chena f cena f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вѐчера f
Roman: vèčera (sh) f
Sicilian: cena (scn) f
Slovak: večera f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: wjacerja f
Spanish: cena (es) f
Swedish: kvällsmat (sv) c
Tagalog: hapunan
Tarifit: amensi m
Ukrainian: вече́ря f ( večérja )
Urdu: عشائیہ ( iśāiyā )
Vietnamese: bữa chiều
Yiddish: אָוונטברויט n ( ovntbroyt ) , וועטשערע f ( vetshere ) , קאָלאַציע f ( kolatsye )
supper (third-person singular simple present suppers present participle suppering simple past and past participle suppered
To consume a snack before going to bed .
To eat dinner . Translations [ edit ] Etymology 2 [ edit ] sup -er
supper (plural suppers
A drinker , especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups ). Translations [ edit ] Anagrams [ edit ] supper c
indefinite plural of suppe Norwegian Bokmål [ edit ] supper m or f
indefinite plural of suppe Norwegian Nynorsk [ edit ] supper f
indefinite plural of suppe 