French toast

See also: french toast

English

French toast with toppings.

Alternative forms

• french toast

Etymology

First recorded use in 1660, in a recipe without eggs , in the current sense from 1870s . The common French name for the dish is pain perdu (literally “lost bread”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌfɹɛnt͡ʃ ˈtəʊst/
• IPA^(key): /ˌfɹɛnt͡ʃ ˈtoʊst/

Noun

French toast (uncountable)

1. (uncountable, cooking) Food prepared by dipping bread into egg batter and frying.

   I'd like syrup on my French toast.

Translations

food prepared by dipping bread into egg batter and frying

• Bulgarian: пържена филия f (pǎržena filija)
• Catalan: rostes de Santa Teresa m pl
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 西多士 (sai¹do¹ si⁶-²), 西多 (sai¹do¹)

  Mandarin: 法國吐司／法国吐司, 法国吐司 (Fàguó tǔsī), 法蘭西吐司／法兰西吐司, 法兰西吐司 (Fǎlánxī tǔsī)

• Danish: arme riddere c pl
• Dutch: wentelteefje (nl) n
• Esperanto: pankuko
• Finnish: köyhät ritarit pl
• French: pain perdu (fr) m (France), pain doré (fr) m (Canada)
• German: arme Ritter m pl
• Greek: αυγόψωμο n (avgópsomo), αυγόφετα (el) f (avgófeta)
• Hebrew: פרנץ' טוסט, לחם מטוגן
• Hungarian: bundás kenyér
• Irish: tósta francach m
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• Italian: panperso m
• Japanese: フレンチトースト (Furenchi tōsuto)
• Korean: 프렌치 토스트 (Peurenchi toseuteu)
• Malay: roti bakar
• Norwegian: arme riddere m pl
• Portuguese: rabanada f
• Romanian: toast franțuzesc n
• Russian: францу́зский тост m (francúzskij tost)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прженица

  Roman: prženica (sh)

• Spanish: torrijas (es) f pl
• Swedish: fattiga riddare c pl

Further reading

• French toast on Wikipedia.Wikipedia