french fries

See also: French fries

English

French fries cooked in truffle oil, sprinkled with herbs

Crinkle-cut sweet potato fries as a side dish

Alternative forms

• French fries

Etymology

Clipping of earlier French fried potatoes (1856) and French-fried potatoes, potatoes supposedly prepared in the French style.

Pronunciation

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Noun

french fries pl (normally plural, singular french fry)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) Strips of deep-fried potatoes that have been frenched (cut into strips). [from 1903]

   French fries are our specialty.

   • 1903, Lillian Pettengill, Toilers of the Home, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 292:

     “What's the matter?” she asked quickly. “Haven't we had all the things before? Soup, chops, peas, French fries, and the fruit pudding–there wasn't a thing new.”

   • 1922, Robert C. Benchley, chapter XXII, in Love Conquers All, Henry Holt & Company, page 111:

     His first official act was to order dinner. “A nice, juicy steak,” he is said to have called for, “French fries, apple pie and a cup of coffee.” It is probable that he really said “a coff of cuppee,” however, as he was a wag of the first water and loved a joke as well as the next king.

Usage notes

In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, deep-fried potato strips are generally and traditionally called chips. However, with exposure to the "french fries" on the menus of US-origin fast food outlets, the term "french fries" (or just "fries") has for many people come to mean, specifically, "chips" of the type usually served in those outlets, which are generally thinner, and also possibly crispier, than the traditional British "chip".

Synonyms

• fries (North America); freedom fries (US, dated); French-fried potatoes (North America, dated)

Hyponyms

• julienne fries; crinkle-cut fries; home fries, cottage fries; potato wedges, wedges

Derived terms

• fries

 

Translations

deep fried strips of potato

• Afrikaans: slaptjips (af), aartappelskyfie
• Albanian: patate të skuqura f pl
• Arabic: بَطَاطَا مَقْلِيَّة f (baṭāṭā maqliyya), بَطَاطِس مَقْلِيَّة f (baṭāṭis maqliyya)

  Hijazi Arabic: بطاطس m (baṭāṭis), بطاطس مقلي m (baṭāṭis magli)

• Armenian: ֆրի (hy) (fri)
• Basque: patata frijitu
• Belarusian: бу́льба фры f (búlʹba fry)
• Bulgarian: пъ́ржени карто́фи m pl (pǎ́rženi kartófi), чипс pl (čips)
• Catalan: patates fregides f pl, creïlles fregides f pl
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 薯條／薯条 (syu⁴ tiu^4-2)

  Mandarin: 炸薯條／炸薯条 (zh) (zháshǔtiáo, zhàshǔtiáo), 土豆條／土豆条 (zh) (tǔdòutiáo), 馬鈴薯條／马铃薯条 (zh) (mǎlíngshǔtiáo), 炸土豆條／炸土豆条 (zh) (zhátǔdòutiáo), 薯條／薯条 (zh) (shǔtiáo), 法式薯條／法式薯条 (zh) (fǎshì shǔtiáo)

• Czech: hranolky (cs) m pl, pomfrity pl
• Danish: pomfrit (da) c, pommes frites (da) pl, fritter pl
• Dutch: (southern Netherlands, Belgium) frietjes (nl), (northern Netherlands) patat (nl), (Belgium) frieten (nl)
• Esperanto: terpomfingroj (eo) pl, terpomfritoj (eo) pl
• Estonian: friikartulid pl, friikad pl
• Finnish: ranskalaiset perunat (fi) pl, ranskanperunat (fi) pl; ranskikset pl, ranskalaiset pl
• French: frites (fr) f pl, pommes frites (fr) f pl, pommes allumettes f pl
• Galician: patacas fritas f pl
• Georgian: კარტოფილი ფრი (ḳarṭopili pri)
• German: Pommes frites (de) f pl, Pommes (de) f pl, Fritten (de) f pl
• Greek: τηγανητές πατάτες f pl (tiganités patátes)
• Gujarati: ફ્રેન્ચ ફ્રાઈસ (phrenc phrāīsa)
• Hebrew: טוגנים (he) pl (tuganim) צ'יפס (he) pl (tchips)
• Hindi: फ़्रेंच फ़्राइज़ (frẽc frāiz)
• Hungarian: hasábburgonya (hu), szalmakrumpli (hu), sült burgonya, sült krumpli (hu)
• Ido: potato-fritajo
• Indonesian: kentang goreng, keripik (id)
• Interlingua: patatas frite
• Irish: sceallóga f pl
• Italian: patata fritta f (colloquial), patate fritte f pl (colloquial), patatine fritte f pl, patatina fritta f, patatina f
• Japanese: フライドポテト (ja) (furaidopoteto), フレンチフライ (ja) (furenchifurai)
• Khmer: ដំឡូងបារាំង (dɑmloung baarang), ដំឡូងបារាំងបំពង (dɑmloung baarang bɑmpɔɔng), បន្ទះសៀគ្វី (banteah siekvi)
• Korean: 감자튀김 (ko) (gamjatwigim), 감자튀기 (ko) (gamjatwigi) (used in North Korea), 프렌치 프라이 (peurenchi peurai)
• Lao: ມັນຝຣັ່ງທອດ (man fa rang thǭt)
• Latvian: frī kartupeļi pl, kartupeļi frī
• Lithuanian: bulvytės fri
• Macedonian: помфри́т m (pomfrít)
• Malay: kentang goreng (ms)
• Maltese: ċips pl
• Maori: tītipi
• Mongolian: шарсан төмс (šarsan töms)
• Navajo: nímasii ádaałtsʼóózígo niheeshgizhgo akʼah bee shibézhígíí
• Norwegian: pommes frites m, pomfri m
• Persian: سیب‌زمینی سرخ‌کرده (sib-zamini-ye sorx-karde)
• Polish: frytki (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: batatas fritas f pl, batatinha frita (pt) f
• Romanian: cartofi prăjiți m pl
• Russian: ло́мтик (ru) m (lómtik), чипс (ru) m (čips), карто́фель фри (ru) m (kartófelʹ fri), чи́псы (ru) m pl (čípsy)
• Scottish Gaelic: sliseag f, tiops m pl
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀мфрит m

  Roman: pòmfrit (sh) m, prženi krumpirići pl

• Slovak: hranolčeky m pl, pomfritky pl
• Slovene: pomfri m
• Sotho: tjhipise
• Spanish: (Spain) patatas fritas f pl, (Mexico) papas fritas (es) f pl, (Nicaragua) papitas fritas f pl, papas a la francesa f pl, patatas a la francesa f pl
• Swedish: pommes frites (sv) c, strips (sv) pl
• Telugu: ఫ్రెంచ్ ఫ్రైస్ (phreñc phrais)
• Thai: มันฝรั่งทอด
• Turkish: patates kızartması (tr)
• Ukrainian: карто́пля фрі f (kartóplja fri)
• Uyghur: بەرەڭگە قەلەمچىسى (berengge qelemchisi)
• Vietnamese: khoai tây chiên (literally “fried western potato”)
• Welsh: sglodion (cy), tsipsen f
• Yiddish: פֿראַנצויזיש פֿרייז (frantsoyzish freyz)