kitchenette

English

Etymology

From kitchen +‎ -ette (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɪt͡ʃəˈnɛt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

kitchenette (plural kitchenettes)

1. A small kitchen or area for preparing food, often just a part of a room.
   • 1943, Punch, volume 205, page 274:

     It is a kind of large cellar with a kitchenette and a bathroomette adjoining.

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 279:

     Rona disappeared into the little kitchenette and Nicol made a recce of the room.

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: quitinete

Translations

small kitchen

• Arabic: مَطْبَخ صَغِير m (maṭbaḵ ṣaḡīr), مُطَيْبِخ m (muṭaybiḵ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小厨房 (xiǎochúfáng)

• Czech: kuchyňský kout (cs) m
• Finnish: keittokomero (fi)
• German: Kochnische (de) f
• Hungarian: főzőfülke (hu), főzőkonyha, garzonkonyha, teakonyha (hu)
• Italian: angolo cottura m, cucinotto (it) m, cucinino (it) m
• Macedonian: чајна кујна f (čajna kujna), кујничка f (kujnička)
• Polish: aneks kuchenny m
• Romanian: chicinetă (ro) f
• Russian: ку́хонька (ru) f (kúxonʹka)
• Slovak: kuchynský kút m
• Swedish: kokvrå (sv) c, pentry (sv) n

See also

• pantry