cuisine

See also: cuisiné

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”), from Vulgar Latin *cocina, from Latin coquina. Doublet of kitchen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwɪˈziːn/

Noun

cuisine (countable and uncountable, plural cuisines)

1. a characteristic style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin

   French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant styles of cooking.

   The restaurant is noted for its excellent cuisine.

Synonyms

• (characteristic style of preparing food): culinary art, kitchen

Derived terms

• haute cuisine
• nouvelle cuisine

Related terms

• curry

Translations

characteristic style of preparing food

• Arabic: طَبْخ‎‎ (ṭabḵ), طَبِيخ‎‎ m (ṭabīḵ), مَطْبَخ‎‎ m (maṭbaḵ)
• Armenian: խոհանոց (hy) (xohanocʿ)
• Basque: sukaldaritza (eu)
• Catalan: cuina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烹飪法 (zh), 烹饪法 (zh) (pēngrènfǎ), (of specific cuisine) 餐 (zh) (cān)

• Danish: køkken (da) n
• Dutch: keuken (nl) f, m
• Finnish: keittiö (fi)
• French: cuisine (fr) f
• Galician: cociña (gl) f
• German: Küche (de) f
• Greek: μαγειρική (el) f (mageirikí), κουζίνα (el) f (kouzína)
• Hebrew: מטבח‎‎ (he) m (mit'bakh)
• Italian: cucina (it) f, culinaria (it) f
• Japanese: 料理 (ja) (りょうり, ryōri), 割烹 (ja) (kappō)

• Korean: 요리 (ko) (yori) (料理 (ko)), (North Korea) 료리 (ko) (ryori)
• Latvian: kulinārija f, virtuve f
• Macedonian: кујна f (kújna)
• Mongolian: гал тогоо (gal togoo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjøkken (no) n

  Nynorsk: kjøken n, kjøkken n

• Polish: kuchnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: cozinha (pt) f, culinária (pt) f
• Russian: ку́хня (ru) f (kúxnja)
• Serbo-Croatian: kuhinja (sh) f
• Spanish: cocina (es) f
• Swedish: kök (sv) n, matkultur c, kokkonst c
• Turkish: mutfak (tr)
• Vietnamese: ẩm thực (vi)

See also

• gastronomy

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French

Etymology

From Old French cuisine, from Vulgar Latin *cocīna, from Latin coquīna, whence also Catalan cuina, Galician cociña, Italian cucina, Portuguese cozinha, Spanish cocina, and ultimately English kitchen, Dutch keuken and German Küche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɥi.zin/

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Noun

cuisine f (plural cuisines)

1. kitchen

   Brian est dans la cuisine

   Brian is in the kitchen.

2. cuisine

   J’aime la cuisine française.

   I like French cooking.

Related terms

• cuir
• cuisson
• cuit

Verb

cuisine

1. first-person singular present indicative of cuisiner
2. third-person singular present indicative of cuisiner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cuisiner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cuisiner
5. second-person singular imperative of cuisiner

Further reading

• “cuisine” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).