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/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊt.lə.ɹi/ (no foot-strut split)

• Audio (Southern England)

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Some cutleries.

Noun

cutlery (countable and uncountable, plural cutleries)

1. A collective ensemble of eating and serving utensils such as knives, forks and spoons.

   a cutlery set

   This cutlery comes from Normandy, France.

2. The business of a cutler.

Synonyms

• flatware
• silverware (US)
• see also Thesaurus:cutlery

Derived terms

• cutleryware

Related terms

• cutlass
• cutler

Translations

eating and serving utensils

• 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
• Norman: coutell'lie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bestikk (no) n

  Nynorsk: bestikk n

• Polish: sztućce (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) (xomčini)
• 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)
• 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

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