cutlery

English

Etymology

From Middle English cotellerie, cutleri (“the cutler’s art or craft”), from Old French coutelerie (modern French coutellerie).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌt.lə.ɹi/
• (foot-strut split) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊt.lə.ɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

cutlery (usually uncountable, plural cutleries)

Some cutleries.

1. (US) Sharp cutting utensils.

   Proper maintenance of your cutlery will keep the blades from dulling.

3. (chiefly UK) Eating or serving utensils such as knives, forks, and spoons.

   Synonyms: (US) flatware, silverware

   a cutlery set

   This cutlery comes from Normandy, France.

4. The business of a cutler.

Synonyms

• see also Thesaurus:cutlery

Derived terms

• cutleryware

Related terms

• cutlass
• cutler

Translations

eating and serving utensils

• Azerbaijani: vilka-qaşıq (literally “fork-spoon”) (informally)
• Bulgarian: прибори (bg) m pl (pribori)
• Catalan: coberts (ca), coberteria f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 餐具 (caan¹ geoi⁶)

  Mandarin: 餐具 (zh) (cānjù)

• Czech: příbor (cs) m
• Danish: bestik (da)
• Dutch: bestek (nl) n, couvert (nl) n
• Esperanto: manĝilaro
• Faroese: borðbúnaður m
• Finnish: ruokailuvälineet (fi) pl, aterimet (fi) pl
• French: couverts (fr) m pl, couverts de table m pl, services (fr) m pl (Switzerland)
• Georgian: დანა-ჩანგალი (dana-čangali)
• German: Essbesteck (de) n, Besteck (de) n
• Greek: μαχαιροπήρουνα n pl (machairopírouna)
• Haitian Creole: istansil
• Hebrew: סַכּוּ״ם (he) m (sakúm)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: evőeszközök (hu) pl
• Icelandic: hnífapör n pl
• Indonesian: alat makan
• Italian: coltelleria (it) f, posate (it) f pl
• Japanese: カトラリー (ja) (katorarī)
• Korean: 칼붙이 (kalbuchi), 수저 (ko) (sujeo), 커틀러리 (keoteulleori)
• Latin: ferramenta n pl
• Macedonian: при́бор m (príbor)
• Maltese: pożati, għodda tal-kċina
• Maori: utauta kai, pāokaoka
• Norman: coutell'lie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bestikk (no) n

  Nynorsk: bestikk n

• Occitan: cobèrts m pl
• Polish: sztućce nvir pl
• Portuguese: talheres (pt) m pl
• Punjabi: ਕਟਲਰੀ (kaṭlarī)
• Romanian: tacâmuri n pl, cuțitărie (ro) f
• Russian: столо́вые прибо́ры m pl (stolóvyje pribóry), прибо́ры (ru) m pl (pribóry)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прибор за јело m, е̏сца̄јг m

  Roman: pribor za jelo m, ȅscājg (sh) m

• Slovak: príbor m
• Slovene: jedilni pribor m
• Spanish: cubertería f, cubiertos (es) m
• Swedish: bestick (sv) n
• Tagalog: kubyertos
• Tajik: хомчини (tg) (xomčin-i)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: కట్లెరీ (kaṭlerī)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: çatal-bıçak takımı, sofra takımı (tr), takım (tr)
• Ukrainian: столо́ві прибо́ри m pl (stolóvi prybóry)
• Urdu: کٹلری
• Vietnamese: muỗng đũa (spoons and chopsticks), muỗng nĩa (spoons and forks), dao nĩa (knives and forks), thìa muỗng (spoons)
• Welsh: cyllyll a ffyrc f pl
• Xhosa: zingahlanjwanga
• Zulu: sezipuni

Anagrams

• cruelty