cuisine

See also: cuisiné

English

Etymology

Borrowed 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. (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. (countable, dated) A kitchen or cooking department.

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, 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)
• Italian: cucina (it) f, culinaria (it) f
• Japanese: 料理 (ja) (りょうり, ryōri), 割烹 (ja) (kappō)
• Kapampangan: pamaglutu

• 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
• Tagalog: pagluluto, lutuin
• 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

Descendants

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

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).