dumpling

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology

perhaps an alteration of lump, possibly associated with -ling by popular etymology

Noun

dumpling (plural dumplings)

1. A ball of dough, often combined with suet, minced meat, vegetables or fruit, and cooked by boiling or steaming as they float on top of another dish.
2. A term of endearment.

   My little dumpling.

Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:dumpling

Derived terms

• apple dumpling
• clootie dumpling
• dumpling squid
• Norfolk dumpling
• North Dumpling Island
• potato dumpling
• raspberry dumpling
• rice dumpling

Translations

food

• Bulgarian: кнедла f (knedla)
• Chinese:

  Dungan: Template:tø

  Mandarin: 餃子／饺子 (jiǎozi), 饺子 (jiǎozi)

• Czech: knedlík m
• Finnish: myky (fi), kokkare
• French: quenelle (fr) f
• German: Knödel (de)
• Hungarian: galuska (hu), nokedli, gombóc (hu)
• Italian: gnocco (it) m
• Japanese: 餃子 (gyōza), ギョーザ (gyōza)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Luxembourgish: Kniddel f
• Navajo: Template:tø
• Polish: pieróg m
• Russian: пельмень (ru) m (pel'mén'), клёцка f (kljócka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: nokla f, noklica f, knédla f, knédl m, gomboca f

  Cyrillic: нокла f (nokla), ноклица f (noklica), кнедла f (knedla), кнéдл m (knedla), гомбоца f (gomboca)

• Spanish: albóndiga (es) f
• Swedish: klimp c, knyte n, dumpling c, pirog c

term of endearment

• Finnish: kultamussukka
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• French: chou (fr) m

See also

• dim sum
• noodle
• pudding
• quenelle

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967