canteen

English[edit]

From French cantine, from Italian cantina, from Vulgar Latin canthus (“corner”), from Gaulish *cantos, denoting the location for liquor storage, from Proto-Celtic *cantos (“corner”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ndʰ.

canteen (plural canteens)

A small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.
A temporary or mobile café used in an emergency or on a film location etc.
A box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc.
A military mess kit.
A water bottle used by a soldier or camper.

small cafeteria or snack bar

Arabic: مَقْصَف‎‎ (ar) m (maqṣaf)
Armenian: ճաշարան (hy) (čašaran)
Azerbaijani: yeməkxana (az), bufet (az)
Basque: kantina (eu), jantegi (eu)
Belarusian: стало́вая f (stalóvaja)
Bulgarian: ла́вка f (lávka), столо́ва (bg) f (stolóva)
Burmese: စစ်သုံးအိုးခွက် (cacsum:ui:hkwak)
Central Dusun: kantin
Chinese:
Cantonese: 餐廳, 餐厅 (caan¹ teng¹), 飯堂, 饭堂 (faan⁶ tong⁴)

Mandarin: 食堂 (zh) (shítáng), 餐廳 (zh), 餐厅 (zh) (cāntīng)
Czech: jídelna (cs) f, kantýna (cs) f
Dutch: kantine (nl)
Estonian: söökla
Finnish: ruokala (fi), kanttiini (fi), henkilöstöruokala
French: cantine (fr) f
Georgian: სასადილო (sasadilo)
German: Kantine (de) f
Greek: καντίνα (el) f (kantína), τραπεζαρία (el) f (trapezaría)
Hebrew: קַנטִינָה‎‎ (he) (kantina)
Hindi: कैंटीन (hi) m (kaiṇṭīn)
Hungarian: kantin (hu), menza (hu)
Icelandic: mötuneyti (is) n, matsalur (is) m
Irish: ceaintín m
Italian: mensa (it) f
Japanese: 食堂 (ja) (しょくどう, shokudō), カフェテリア (kafeteria)
Kazakh: асхана (asxana)
Korean: 구내식당 (gunaesikdang), 식당 (ko) (sikdang), 카페테리아 (kapeteria)
Kyrgyz: ашкана (ky) (aşkana), столовая (ky) (stolovaya)

Lao: ຮ້ານອາຫານ (lo) (hān ’ā hān)
Latin: (military) caupona castrensis f
Latvian: ēdnīca f
Lithuanian: valgykla f
Macedonian: кантина f (kantina)
Malay: kantin
Norwegian: kantine m, f
Occitan: cantina f
Persian: کافه‌تریا‎‎ (kâfe-teriyâ)
Polish: stołówka (pl) f
Portuguese: cantina (pt) f
Romanian: cantină (ro) f
Russian: столо́вая (ru) f (stolóvaja), заку́сочная (ru) f (zakúsočnaja), буфе́т (ru) m (bufét), кафете́рий (ru) m (kafetɛ́rij)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кантина f

Roman: kantina (sh) f
Slovak: kantína f, jedáleň f
Slovene: menza (sl) f
Spanish: cantina (es) f
Swedish: matsal (sv), kantin (sv)
Tajik: ошхона (tg) (ošxona)
Tatar: ашханә (tt) (aşxanä)
Thai: โรงอาหาร (roong-aa-hǎan)
Turkish: kantin (tr)
Turkmen: mytara
Ukrainian: їда́льня (uk) f (jidálʹnja)
Uyghur: ئاشخانا‎‎ (ashxana)
Uzbek: oshxona (uz), ovqatxona (uz), yemakxona (uz)
Vietnamese: căng tin, nhà ăn (vi)

temporary or mobile cafe

box with compartments

military mess kit

water bottle

Japanese: 水筒 (すいとう, suitō)
Khmer: ប៊ីដុង (km) (biidong)
Lao: ກະຕິກ (lo) (ka tik)
Latin: laguncula f
Portuguese: cantil (pt) m
Russian: фля́га (ru) f (fljága), фля́жка (ru) f (fljážka), бидо́н (ru) m (bidón)
Spanish: cantina (es), cantimplora (es)
Swedish: fältflaska (sv) c
Thai: กระติก (grà-dtìk)
Turkish: matara (tr)
Volapük: (soldier's) militaflad (vo)