curry

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English[edit]

Fish head curry, a popular dish in Singapore
The title page of a 1780 reprint of the 1390 work Forme of Cury

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) enPR: kŭrʹē, IPA(key): /ˈkʌɹ.i/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkʌɹ.i/, /ˈkɝ.i/
    • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌɹi

Etymology 1[edit]

1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English[1][2]), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”),[2] from Middle French cuyre (“to cook”) (from which also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere, present active infinitive of coquō.

Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of Richard II of England.

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

curry (countable and uncountable, plural curries)

  1. One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce
    Synonym: (rhyming slang) Ruby Murray
  2. A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavoured with curry powder
  3. Curry powder
    Synonym: curry powder
  4. (incel slang, derogatory) An Indian
  5. (piracy slang) someone who begs for invite for private trackers on /ptg/(private tracker general) of 4chan
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Translations[edit]
curry powder — see curry powder
See also[edit]

Verb[edit]

curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)

  1. (transitive) To cook or season with curry powder.
Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English currayen, from Old French correer (“to prepare”), presumably from Vulgar Latin *conredare, from Latin com- (a form of con- (“with; together”)) + a verb derived from Proto-Germanic *raidaz. More at ready.

Verb[edit]

curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)

  2. (transitive) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
  3. (transitive) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
  4. (transitive) To beat, thrash; to drub.
  5. (transitive, figurative) To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
    • 2014 August 27, Stephanie Zacharek, “The Last of Robin Hood Wrestles with a Star's Underage Love”, in The Village Voice‎[2], archived from the original on 2014-09-03:
      A middle-aged woman waves and calls to her, as if she, like the hungry reporters, were currying the girl's favor: Florence Aadland (Sarandon, in a wily, multilayered performance), Beverly's mother, wears an expression of maternal concern, though her self-serving motives become increasingly clear.
Usage notes[edit]

The sense "to win or gain favour" is most frequently used in the phrases to curry favour (with) and to curry [someone's] favour.

Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
curry favor — see curry favor
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Etymology 3[edit]

Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry.

Verb[edit]

curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)

  1. (transitive, computing) To perform currying upon.
    • 2011, Zachary Kessin, Programming HTML5 Applications: Building Powerful Cross-Platform Environments in JavaScript, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 21:
      The easiest way to curry parameters is to create a function that takes a parameter block and returns a function that will call the original function with the presupplied parameters as defaults […] .
    • 2015, Leonardo Borges, Clojure Reactive Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 194:
      Next, we curry the avg function to 3 arguments and put it into an option.
Translations[edit]

Etymology 4[edit]

Possibly derived from currier, a common 16th- to 18th-century form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Possibly influenced by scurry.

Verb[edit]

curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To scurry; to ride or run hastily
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
    • 1608, George Chapman, The Conspiracie, and Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron, section 2.245:
      I am not hee that can ... by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles.
    • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
      All these shots shall curry or finish their ranges in times equal to each other.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To hurry.
    • 1676, Andrew Marvell, Mr. Smirke, section 34:
      A sermon is soon curryed over.

Etymology 5[edit]

Noun[edit]

curry (plural curries)

  1. Obsolete form of quarry.

Further reading[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hannah Glasse, Glasse’s Art of Cookery, 1747
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “The Origins of ‘Curry’ (Is it really English?)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], 2010 October 8 (last accessed), archived from the original on 29 September 2011

Basque[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

curry inan

  1. curry powder
  2. curry dish

Declension[edit]

Declension of curry (inanimate, ending in vowel)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive curry curry-a curry-ak
ergative curry-k curry-ak curry-ek
dative curry-ri curry-ari curry-ei
genitive curry-ren curry-aren curry-en
comitative curry-rekin curry-arekin curry-ekin
causative curry-rengatik curry-arengatik curry-engatik
benefactive curry-rentzat curry-arentzat curry-entzat
instrumental curry-z curry-az curry-ez
inessive curry-tan curry-an curry-etan
locative curry-tako curry-ko curry-etako
allative curry-tara curry-ra curry-etara
terminative curry-taraino curry-raino curry-etaraino
directive curry-tarantz curry-rantz curry-etarantz
destinative curry-tarako curry-rako curry-etarako
ablative curry-tatik curry-tik curry-etatik
partitive curry-rik — —
prolative curry-tzat — —

Further reading[edit]

  • "curry" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English curry.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

curry m (plural curry's, diminutive curry'tje n)

  1. the spicy condiment curry powder
    Synonyms: kerrie, kerriepoeder
  2. a curry dish
    Synonym: kerrieschotel
  3. curry ketchup
    Synonym: curryketchup

Derived terms[edit]

Finnish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English curry, itself from Tamil கறி (kaṟi).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑrːi/, [ˈkɑ̝rːi]
  • Rhymes: -ɑrːi
  • Syllabification(key): cur‧ry

Noun[edit]

curry

  1. curry, curry powder (south Asian spice mix)
  2. curry (a dish made using this spice mixture)

Declension[edit]

Inflection of curry (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative curry curryt
genitive curryn curryjen
partitive currya curryja
illative curryyn curryihin
singular plural
nominative curry curryt
accusative nom. curry curryt
gen. curryn
genitive curryn curryjen
partitive currya curryja
inessive curryssa curryissa
elative currysta curryista
illative curryyn curryihin
adessive currylla curryilla
ablative currylta curryilta
allative currylle curryille
essive curryna curryina
translative curryksi curryiksi
abessive currytta curryitta
instructive — curryin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of curry (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative curryni curryni
accusative nom. curryni curryni
gen. curryni
genitive curryni curryjeni
partitive curryani curryjani
inessive curryssani curryissani
elative currystani curryistani
illative curryyni curryihini
adessive curryllani curryillani
ablative curryltani curryiltani
allative currylleni curryilleni
essive currynani curryinani
translative currykseni curryikseni
abessive curryttani curryittani
instructive — —
comitative — curryineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative currysi currysi
accusative nom. currysi currysi
gen. currysi
genitive currysi curryjesi
partitive curryasi curryjasi
inessive curryssasi curryissasi
elative currystasi curryistasi
illative curryysi curryihisi
adessive curryllasi curryillasi
ablative curryltasi curryiltasi
allative curryllesi curryillesi
essive currynasi curryinasi
translative curryksesi curryiksesi
abessive curryttasi curryittasi
instructive — —
comitative — curryinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative currymme currymme
accusative nom. currymme currymme
gen. currymme
genitive currymme curryjemme
partitive curryamme curryjamme
inessive curryssamme curryissamme
elative currystamme curryistamme
illative curryymme curryihimme
adessive curryllamme curryillamme
ablative curryltamme curryiltamme
allative curryllemme curryillemme
essive currynamme curryinamme
translative curryksemme curryiksemme
abessive curryttamme curryittamme
instructive — —
comitative — curryinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative currynne currynne
accusative nom. currynne currynne
gen. currynne
genitive currynne curryjenne
partitive curryanne curryjanne
inessive curryssanne curryissanne
elative currystanne curryistanne
illative curryynne curryihinne
adessive curryllanne curryillanne
ablative curryltanne curryiltanne
allative curryllenne curryillenne
essive currynanne curryinanne
translative curryksenne curryiksenne
abessive curryttanne curryittanne
instructive — —
comitative — curryinenne
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative currynsa currynsa
accusative nom. currynsa currynsa
gen. currynsa
genitive currynsa curryjensa
partitive curryaan
curryansa 		curryjaan
curryjansa
inessive curryssaan
curryssansa 		curryissaan
curryissansa
elative currystaan
currystansa 		curryistaan
curryistansa
illative curryynsa curryihinsa
adessive curryllaan
curryllansa 		curryillaan
curryillansa
ablative curryltaan
curryltansa 		curryiltaan
curryiltansa
allative currylleen
curryllensa 		curryilleen
curryillensa
essive currynaan
currynansa 		curryinaan
curryinansa
translative currykseen
curryksensa 		curryikseen
curryiksensa
abessive curryttaan
curryttansa 		curryittaan
curryittansa
instructive — —
comitative — curryineen
curryinensa

Derived terms[edit]

compounds

Further reading[edit]

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed into Middle French from multiple sources including English curry, all ultimately derived from Tamil கறி (kaṟi).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

curry m (plural currys)

  1. curry
    Synonym: cari

Further reading[edit]

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English curry.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

curry m (invariable)

  1. curry; curry powder

Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English curry, from Tamil கறி (kaṟi).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

curry n (indeclinable)

  1. curry (dish)
  2. curry powder

Further reading[edit]

  • curry in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • curry in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

curry m (uncountable)

  1. (Brazil) curry powder (mixture of spices used in Asian cooking)
    Synonym: caril
  2. (Brazil) curry (dish made with curry powder)

Romanian[edit]

curry

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from French curry, from English curry, from Tamil கறி (kaṟi).

Noun[edit]

curry m (uncountable)

  1. curry powder (mixture of spices)
  2. curry (dish)

Spanish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English curry.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuri/ [ˈku.ri]
  • Rhymes: -uri
  • Syllabification: cu‧rry

Noun[edit]

curry m (plural currys)

  1. curry

Usage notes[edit]

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading[edit]

Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

curry c (uncountable)

  1. curry powder

Declension[edit]

Declension of curry 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative curry curryn — —
Genitive currys curryns — —

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

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