curry

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English

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

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ʌri

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

curry (countable and uncountable, plural curries)

  1. One of a family of dishes originating from South Asian 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
Derived terms
Translations
curry powder — see curry powder
See also

Verb

curry (third-person singular simple present curr, present participle ies, simple past and past participle curried)

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

Etymology 2

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

curry (third-person singular simple present curr, present participle ies, simple past and past participle curried)

  1. (transitive) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
    • (Can we date this quote by Beaumont and Fletcher and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Your short horse is soon curried.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 11, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.
  2. (transitive) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
  3. (transitive) To beat, thrash; to drub.
    • (Can we date this quote by Beaumont and Fletcher and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely.
    • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1
      […] By setting brother against brother / To claw and curry one another.
  4. (transitive) To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
Usage notes

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
Translations
curry favor — see curry favor
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Etymology 3

Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry.

Verb

curry (third-person singular simple present curr, present participle ies, 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

Etymology 4

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

curry (third-person singular simple present curr, present participle ies, 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 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 34
      A sermon is soon curryed over.

Etymology 5

Noun

curry (plural curries)

  1. Obsolete form of quarry.

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Hannah Glasse, Glasse’s Art of Cookery, 1747
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Origins of ‘Curry’ (Is it really English?)

Dutch

Etymology

From English curry.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Finnish

Alternative forms

Noun

curry

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

Declension

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

French

Etymology

From English curry.

Pronunciation

Noun

curry m (plural currys)

  1. a curry

Further reading

Italian

Noun

curry m (uncountable)

  1. curry; curry powder

Portuguese

Noun

curry m (uncountable)

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

Romanian

curry

Noun

curry m (uncountable)

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

Noun

curry m (plural currys)

  1. curry

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

curry c (uncountable)

  1. a curry
  2. curry powder

Declension

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