cuisine

See also: cuisiné

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”), from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Doublet of kitchen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwɪˈziːn/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

cuisine (countable and uncountable, plural cuisines)

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.

2. (uncountable) Synonym of culinary art: The art of preparing food, generally.
3. (countable, dated) A kitchen or cooking department.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• batterie de cuisine
• chef de cuisine
• fusion cuisine
• haute cuisine
• modernist cuisine
• nouvelle cuisine
• spa cuisine

 

Related terms

• curry

Translations

characteristic style of preparing food

• Albanian: gjellëtari (sq) f
• Arabic: طَبْخ‎ (ar) (ṭabḵ), طَبِيخ‎ m (ṭabīḵ), مَطْبَخ‎ m (maṭbaḵ)
• Armenian: խոհանոց (hy) (xohanocʿ)
• Basque: sukaldaritza (eu)
• Belarusian: ку́хня f (kúxnja)
• Bulgarian: ку́хня (bg) f (kúhnja)
• Catalan: cuina (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

  Min Nan: 料理 (zh-min-nan) (liāu-lí)

• Czech: kuchyně (cs) f
• Danish: køkken (da) n
• Dutch: keuken (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: kuirarto
• Finnish: keittiö (fi)
• French: cuisine (fr) f, art culinaire (fr) m
• Galician: cociña (gl) f
• German: Küche (de) f, Kochkunst (de) f
• Greek: μαγειρική (el) f (mageirikí), κουζίνα (el) f (kouzína)
• Hebrew: מטבח‎ (he) m (mit'bakh)
• Hindi: पाकशैली (pākśailī)
• Hungarian: konyhaművészet (hu), konyha (hu)
• Italian: cucina (it) f, culinaria (it) f
• Japanese: 料理 (ja) (りょうり, ryōri), 割烹 (ja) (kappō)
• Kapampangan: pamaglutu
• Korean: 요리(料理) (ko) (yori), (North Korea) 료리 (ko) (ryori)
• Latvian: kulinārija f, virtuve f
• Macedonian: кујна f (kujna)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: гал тогоо (gal togoo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjøkken (no) n

  Nynorsk: kjøken n, kjøkken n

• Persian: آشپزی‎ (fa) (âšpazi)
• Polish: kuchnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: cozinha (pt) f, culinária (pt) f
• Russian: ку́хня (ru) f (kúxnja)
• Serbo-Croatian: kuhinja (sh) f, кухиња f
• Slovak: kuchyňa f
• Slovene: kuhinja (sl) f
• Spanish: cocina (es) f
• Swedish: kök (sv) n, matkultur (sv) c, kokkonst (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagluluto, lutuin
• Turkish: mutfak (tr)
• Ukrainian: ку́хня (uk) f (kúxnja)
• Vietnamese: ẩm thực (vi)

culinary art — see culinary art

See also

• gastronomy

Dutch

Etymology

From French cuisine, from Old French cuisine, from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Doublet of keuken.

Noun

cuisine f (uncountable)

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

   Synonym: keuken

Related terms

• haute cuisine

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French cuisine, from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Cognate with English kitchen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɥi.zin/

• audio

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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.

Derived terms

• couteau de cuisine
• cuisine de rue
• cuisinier
• cuisinière
• fille de cuisine
• sel de cuisine
• tablier de cuisine

 

Related terms

• cuire
• cuisiner
• cuisson
• cuit

 

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: lakizin
• → English: cuisine
• → Malagasy: lakozy

Verb

cuisine

1. inflection of cuisiner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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