lasagna

English

A serving of lasagna

Alternative forms

• lasagne

Etymology

From Italian lasagna (and its plural lasagne), possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum (“cooking pot”), from Ancient Greek λάσανον (lásanon, “trivet or stand for a pot”). Others argue the Italian lasagna originally derived from the Arabic (Semitic) lawzinaj ("almond cake").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləˈzæn.jə/, /ləˈzɑː.njə/
• IPA^(key): /ləˈzɑ.njə/, /ləˈsɑ.njə/
• IPA^(key): /ləˈzɑ.njə/
• IPA^(key): /lɘˈsɐː.njɘ/, /lɘˈzɐː.njɘ/

Noun

lasagne (plural lasagnas or lasagne or lasagnes)

1. A flat sheet of pasta.
2. An Italian baked dish comprising layers of such pasta with various ingredients (usually a meat ragù (chiefly Bolognese), a fish ragù or a vegetarian/vegetable ragù with bechamel sauce)

Usage notes

• In Italian, lasagna refers to one lasagna and its plural form, lasagne, refers to the dish. This distinction is rarely observed in English.
• When the dish is referred to as lasagne (rather than lasagna), lasagnes is sometimes found as the plural form, referring to multiple dishes or varieties.

Translations

flat sheet of pasta

• Catalan: lasanya (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麵皮／面皮 (zh) (miànpí), 面皮 (zh) (miànpí)

• Estonian: lasanjeplaat
• Finnish: lasagnelevy (fi)
• Galician: lasaña (gl) f
• Italian: lasagna (it) f
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lasagneplate m or f

  Nynorsk: lasagneplate f

• Persian: لازانیا (lâzânyâ)
• Portuguese: lasanha (pt) f
• Russian: лаза́нья (ru) f (lazánʹja)
• Swedish: lasagneplatta c

baked dish

• Arabic: لَازَانْيَا f (lazanyā)
• Armenian: լազանյա (lazanya)
• Bulgarian: лазаня f (lazanja)
• Catalan: lasanya (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 意大利千層麵／意大利千层面 (Yìdàlì qiāncéngmiàn), 意大利千层面 (Yìdàlì qiāncéngmiàn), 千層麵／千层面 (zh) (qiāncéngmiàn), 千层面 (qiāncéngmiàn), 烤寬麵條／烤宽面条 (kǎokuān miàntiáo), 烤宽面条 (kǎokuān miàntiáo)

• Czech: lasagne f pl, lazaně f pl (rare, nonstandard)
• Danish: lasagne (da) c
• Dutch: lasagne (nl) f
• Esperanto: lazanjo, lasanjoj pl
• Estonian: lasanje
• Finnish: lasagne (fi)
• French: lasagne (fr) f
• Galician: lasaña (gl) f
• German: Lasagne (de) f
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• Icelandic: lasanja n, lasagna n
• Interlingua: lasagna
• Italian: lasagna (it) f (chiefly in the plural)
• Japanese: ラザニア (razania), ラザーニャ (razānya)
• Korean: 라자냐 (lajanya)
• Lithuanian: lazanija f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lasagne m

  Nynorsk: lasagne m

• Persian: لازانیا (lâzânyâ)
• Portuguese: lasanha (pt) f
• Russian: лаза́нья (ru) f (lazánʹja)
• Spanish: lasaña (es) f
• Swedish: lasagne (sv) c

Anagrams

• Laganas, galanas

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Italian

Etymology

Possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum (“cooking pot”), from Ancient Greek λάσανον (lásanon, “trivet or stand for a pot”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: la‧sà‧gna
• Rhymes: -aɲɲa

Noun

lasagna f (plural lasagne)

1. (cooking, food) a food made of flat sheets of pasta alternate with condiments
2. (cooking, chiefly in the plural) a dish of lasagna

Derived terms

• lasagne alla bolognese (“Bolognese lasagna, Bologna-style lasagna, lasagna with Bolognese”)
• lasagne di pesce (“fish lasagna, lasagna with fish ragù”)
• lasagne di verdure (“vegetarian lasagna, lasagna with vegetable ragù”)