soufflé

See also: Soufflé and souffle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French soufflé, from souffler (“to puff”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: so͞oʹflā, IPA^(key): /ˈsuːfleɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• enPR: so͞oflāʹ, IPA^(key): /suːˈfleɪ/

Noun

soufflé (countable and uncountable, plural soufflés)

1. A baked dish made from beaten egg whites and various other ingredients.

Translations

baked dish

• Arabic: نَّفيخة
• Bulgarian: суфле́ n (suflé)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 梳乎厘 (so¹ fu⁴ lei^4-2)

  Mandarin: 蛋奶酥 (zh) (dànnǎisū)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: soufflé (nl) m
• Finnish: kohokas (fi), suflee
• French: soufflé (fr) m
• German: Auflauf (de) m, Soufflé (de) n
• Greek: σουφλέ (el) n (souflé)
• Hungarian: szuflé (hu), felfújt (hu)
• Italian: soufflé (it) m
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• Japanese: スフレ (sufure)
• Malay: sufle
• Maori: hūwherei
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sufflé m

  Nynorsk: sufflé m

• Polish: suflet (pl) m
• Portuguese: suflê (pt) m
• Romanian: sufleu (ro) n
• Russian: суфле́ (ru) n (suflé)
• Spanish: soufflé m, suflé (es) m
• Swedish: sufflé (sv) c
• Thai: ซูเฟล (suu-flêe)
• Turkish: sufle (tr)

Adjective

soufflé (not comparable)

1. (ceramics) Decorated with very small drops or sprinkles of colour, as if blown from a bellows.

Verb

soufflé (third-person singular simple present soufflés, present participle souffléing, simple past and past participle souffléed or souffléd)

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   • 1931, Elizabeth Lucas, Vegetable Cookery, London: William Heinemann Ltd, page 227:

     It is quite possible that the first attempt at souffléing potatoes may be a failure.

   • 1994, Gus Lee, “Rituals”, in Honor and Duty, New York, N.Y.: Borzoi Books, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 79:

     Our lockers were on the floor, gear intermixed in heaps, as if King Kong had souffléed the room with an eggbeater the size of the Eiffel Tower.

   • 1998, Sally Banes, “The Romantic Ballet”, in Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, section “Coppélia and the “decline” of French nineteenth-century ballet”, page 36:

     This period also saw the triumph of the operetta. which satirized and souffléd the tragic love plots of grand opera.

   • 2014, Amy Bentley, “Natural Food, Natural Motherhood, and the Turn toward Homemade: The 1970s to the 1990s”, in Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet (California Studies in Food and Culture; 51), Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 112:

     [Phyllis] Richman also criticized a French baby food cookbook that “would have mother spend her time stuffing trout and souffléing oranges for her toddler.”

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.fle/

• Audio:

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Noun

soufflé m (plural soufflés)

1. soufflé

Descendants

• → English: soufflé
• → Turkish: sufle

Participle

soufflé (feminine soufflée, masculine plural soufflés, feminine plural soufflées)

1. past participle of souffler

Further reading

• “soufflé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French soufflé.

Noun

soufflé m (invariable)

1. soufflé

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Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French souffler (“to blow”), compare Haitian Creole souf.

Verb

soufflé

1. to blow

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

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Portuguese

Noun

soufflé m (plural soufflés)

1. Alternative spelling of suflê