french fries

See also: French fries

English

French fries in a bowl.

Alternative forms

• French fries

Etymology

Shortening of earlier French fried potatoes (1856; sometimes French-fried), potatoes prepared in the French style.

Pronunciation

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Noun

1. (chiefly Canada, US) Strips of deep-fried potatoes that have been frenched (cut into strips). [from 1903]

   French fries is a specialty of the house.

   • 1903, Lillian Pettengill, Toilers of the Home, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 292:

     “What's the matter?” she asked quickly. “Haven't we had all the things before? Soup, chops, peas, French fries, and the fruit pudding–there wasn't a thing new.”

   • 1922, Robert C. Benchley, chapter XXII, in Love Conquers All, Henry Holt & Company, page 111:

     His first official act was to order dinner. “A nice, juicy steak,” he is said to have called for, “French fries, apple pie and a cup of coffee.” It is probable that he really said “a coff of cuppee,” however, as he was a wag of the first water and loved a joke as well as the next king.

Synonyms

• chips, potato chips (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand)
• freedom fries (US, rare, dated)
• French-fried potatoes
• fries (US, Canadian)

Derived terms

• fries

Translations

deep fried strips of potato

• Afrikaans: slaptjips (af)
• Albanian: patate të skuqura f pl
• Arabic: بَطَاطَا مَقْلِيَّة f (baṭāṭā maqliyya), بَطَاطِس مَقْلِيَّة f (baṭāṭis maqliyya)

  Hijazi Arabic: بطاطس m (baṭāṭis), بطاطس مقلي m (baṭāṭis magli)

• Armenian: ֆրի (hy) (fri)
• Belarusian: бу́льба фры f (búlʹba fry)
• Bulgarian: пъ́ржени карто́фи m pl (pǎ́rženi kartófi)
• Catalan: patates fregides f pl, creïlles fregides f pl
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 薯條／薯条 (syu⁴ tiu^4-2), 薯条 (syu⁴ tiu^4-2)

  Mandarin: 炸薯條／炸薯条 (zh) (zháshǔtiáo), 炸薯条 (zh) (zhàshǔtiáo), 土豆條／土豆条 (zh) (tǔdòutiáo), 土豆条 (zh) (tǔdòutiáo), 馬鈴薯條／马铃薯条 (zh) (mǎlíngshǔtiáo), 马铃薯条 (zh) (mǎlíngshǔtiáo), 炸土豆條／炸土豆条 (zh) (zhátǔdòutiáo), 炸土豆条 (zh) (zhátǔdòutiáo), 薯條／薯条 (zh) (shǔtiáo), 薯条 (zh) (shǔtiáo), 法式薯條／法式薯条 (zh) (fǎshì shǔtiáo), 法式薯条 (zh) (fǎshì shǔtiáo)

• Czech: hranolky (cs) m pl, pomfrity pl
• Danish: pomfrit (da) c, pommes frites (da) pl, fritter pl
• Dutch: (southern Netherlands, Belgium) friet (nl), (northern Netherlands) patat (nl), (Belgium) frieten (nl)
• Esperanto: terpomfingroj (eo)
• Estonian: friikartulid pl, friikad pl
• Finnish: ranskalaiset perunat (fi), ranskanperunat (fi); ranskikset pl
• French: frites (fr) f pl, pommes frites (fr) f pl, pommes allumettes f pl
• Galician: patacas fritas f pl
• Georgian: კარტოფილი ფრი (ḳarṭopili pri)
• German: Pommes frites (de) f pl, Pommes (de) f pl, Fritten (de) f pl
• Greek: τηγανητές πατάτες f pl (tiganités patátes)
• Gujarati: ફ્રેન્ચ ફ્રાઈસ (phrenc phrāīsa)
• Hindi: फ़्रेंच फ़्राइज़ (frẽc frāiz)
• Hungarian: hasábburgonya (hu), szalmakrumpli (hu), sült burgonya, sült krumpli (hu)
• Ido: potato-fritajo
• Indonesian: kentang goreng
• Interlingua: patatas frite
• Irish: sceallóga f pl
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• Italian: patata fritta f (colloquial), patate fritte f pl (colloquial), patatine fritte f pl, patatina fritta f
• Japanese: フライドポテト (ja) (furaidopoteto), フレンチフライ (ja) (furenchifurai)
• Khmer: ដំឡូងបារាំង (dɑmloung baarang), ដំឡូងបារាំងបំពង (dɑmloung baarang bɑmpɔɔng)
• Korean: 감자 튀김 (gamja twigim), 프렌치 프라이 (peurenchi peurai)
• Lao: ມັນຝຣັ່ງທອດ (man fa rang thǭt)
• Latvian: frī kartupeļi pl
• Lithuanian: bulvytės fri
• Macedonian: помфри́т m (pomfrít)
• Malay: kentang goreng (ms)
• Mongolian: шарсан төмс (šarsan töms)
• Navajo: nímasii ádaałtsʼóózígo niheeshgizhgo akʼah bee shibézhígíí
• Norwegian: pommes frites m
• Persian: سیب‌زمینی سرخ‌کرده (sib-zamini-ye sorx-karde)
• Polish: frytki (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: batatas fritas f pl, batatinha frita (pt) f
• Romanian: cartofi prăjiți m pl
• Russian: карто́фель фри (ru) m (kartófelʹ fri), чи́псы (ru) m pl (čípsy)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀мфрит m

  Roman: pòmfrit (sh) m, prženi krumpirići pl

• Slovak: hranolčeky m pl, pomfritky pl
• Spanish: (Spain) patatas fritas f pl, (Mexico) papas fritas (es) f pl, (Nicaragua) papitas fritas f pl, papas a la francesa f pl, patatas a la francesa f pl
• Swedish: pommes frites (sv) c, strips (sv) pl
• Telugu: ఫ్రెంచ్ ఫ్రైస్ (phreñc phrais)
• Thai: มันฝรั่งทอด
• Turkish: patates kızartması (tr)
• Ukrainian: карто́пля фрі f (kartóplja fri)
• Uyghur: بەرەڭگە قەلەمچىسى (berengge qelemchisi)
• Vietnamese: khoai tây chiên (literally “fried western potato”)
• Welsh: sglodion (cy)

Further reading

• french fries on Wikipedia.Wikipedia