vinegar

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Etymology

Via Middle English and Old French; compare French vinaigre.

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Noun

vinegar (countable and uncountable; plural vinegars)

1. (uncountable) A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid.
2. (countable) Any variety of vinegar.

   a range of herb-flavoured vinegars

Derived terms

Terms derived from "vinegar"

apple cider vinegar aromatic vinegar balsamic vinegar cane vinegar champagne vinegar chili vinegar Chinese red vinegar cider vinegar coconut vinegar fruit vinegar full of piss and vinegar herb vinegar it is better to be preserved in vinegar than to rot in honey malt vinegar

mother of vinegar piss and vinegar pyroligneous vinegar quick vinegar radical vinegar raspberry vinegar rice vinegar rose vinegar salt and vinegar sherry vinegar spiced vinegar sugar-vinegar sweetened vinegar tarragon vinegar thieves' vinegar

vinegar beer vinegar Bible vinegar car vinegar eel, vinegar-eel vinegar essence vinegarette vinegarrette vinegar-field vinegar fly, vinegar-fly vinegarish vinegarist vinegar lamp vinegar mother vinegar pie vinegar plant, vinegar-plant

vinegar-railing vinegar rice vinegar stick vinegar strokes vinegar syndrome vinegar tree, vinegar-tree vinegar weed, vinegarweed vinegar worm vinegary vinegar-yard white vinegar wine vinegar wish one at vinegar wood vinegar

Related terms

Terms etymologically related to "vinegar"

vinaigrette vinaigrous

vinegaroon / vinegarroon

vinagrous

Translations

condiment

• Afrikaans: asyn (af)
• Alabama: finika
• Albanian: uthull (sq) f
• Arabic: خل (ar) (xal) m
• Aragonese: vinagre (an) m
• Armenian: քացախ (hy) (k'ac'ax)
• Asturian: vinagre (ast) m and f
• Azeri: sirkə (az)
• Belarusian: воцат (be) (vócat) m
• Bulgarian: оцет (bg) (océt) m
• Catalan: vinagre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 醋 (cmn) (cù)

• Czech: ocet (cs)
• Dalmatian: acait
• Danish: eddike (da) c
• Dutch: azijn (nl) m
• Esperanto: vinagro (eo)
• Faroese: edikur (fo) m
• Finnish: etikka (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: vinégro
• French: vinaigre (fr) m
• Galician: vinagre (gl) m
• Georgian: ძმარი (ka) (jmari)
• German: Essig (de) m
• Greek: ξύδι (el) (ksidi) n, ξυνό (el) (ksino) n
• Hausa: munegar (ha)
• Hebrew: חומץ (he) (homets) m
• Hungarian: ecet (hu)
• Icelandic: edik (is) n
• Ido: vinagro (io)
• Ilocano: suka
• Indonesian: cuka (id)
• Irish: fínéagar (ga) m
• Italian: aceto (it) m
• Japanese: 酢 (ja) (す, su)
• Korean: 식초 (ko) (sikcho)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: سرکه (ku)

• Latin: acetum (la) n
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: Esseg (lb) m
• Macedonian: оцет (mk) (ócet) m
• Maltese: ħall (mt) m
• Maori: winika (mi)
• Mongolian: цуу (mn) (tsuu)
• Neapolitan: acìto m
• Norwegian: eddik (no)
• Old English: æcced (ang) n, æcced (ang) n
• Papiamentu: binager
• Persian: سرکه (fa) (serke)
• Polish: ocet (pl)
• Portuguese: vinagre (pt) m
• Quechua: mama aqha (qu)
• Romanian: oțet (ro) n
• Russian: уксус (ru) (úksus) m, (dated, biblical) оцет (ru) (ócet) m
• Scottish Gaelic: fìon-geur (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: оцат (sh) m, кис (sh) m, сирће (sh) n

  Roman: ocat (sh) m, kis (sh) m, sirće (sh) n

• Sicilian: acitu (scn) m
• Slovak: ocot (sk) m
• Slovene: kis (sl) m
• Spanish: vinagre (es) m
• Swahili: siki (sw)
• Swedish: vinäger (sv) c, ättika (sv) c
• Tagalog: suka (tl)
• Taos: biną̀gre’éne
• Thai: น้ำส้มสายชู (th) (nam-som sai-chu)
• Turkish: sirke (tr)
• Ukrainian: оцет (uk) (ócet) m
• Venetian: axédo m
• Vietnamese: giấm (vi)
• Welsh: finegr (cy) m
• Zulu: viniga (zu)

countable: any variety of vinegar

• Czech: ocet (cs)
• Finnish: etikka (fi)

• Scottish Gaelic: fìon-geur (gd) m

See also

• non-brewed condiment

Verb

vinegar (third-person singular simple present vinegars, present participle vinegaring, simple past and past participle vinegared)

1. (transitive) To season with vinegar.

Derived terms

• vinegared
• vinegaring

Translations

to season with vinegar

• Finnish: maustaa (fi) etikalla

• Macedonian: закиселува (mk) (zakiséluva)

Anagrams

• avering, Ginevra, reaving