margarine

See also: Margarine

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French margarine, from acide margarique (“margaric acid”), from Ancient Greek μάργαρον (márgaron, “pearl”), in allusion to its pearly lustre, with the suffix -ine, influenced by glycérine (“glycerine”). French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul named margaric acid after its pearl-like crystallization.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒə.ɹɪn/, /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒəˌɹin/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmɑː.d͡ʒəˈɹiːn/, /ˈmɑː.d͡ʒə.ɹɪn/, (dated) /ˌmɑː.ɡəˈɹiːn/

Noun

margarine (usually uncountable, plural margarines)

1. A spread, manufactured from a blend of vegetable oils (some of which are hydrogenated), emulsifiers etc, mostly used as a substitute for butter.
2. (dated) The solid ingredient of human fat, olive oil, etc.

Synonyms

• marg/marge (colloquial)
• oleomargarine

Related terms

• Margaret (and various forms, q.v.)
• margarita
• margarite
• marguerite

Descendants

• → Japanese: マーガリン (māgarin)
• → Korean: 마가린 (magarin)

Translations

spread

• Albanian: margarinë (sq) f
• Arabic: سَمْن نَبَاتِيّ‎ m (samn nabātiyy)
• Armenian: մարգարին (hy) (margarin)
• Azerbaijani: marqarin
• Belarusian: маргары́н m (marharýn)
• Bengali: মার্জারিন (marjarin)
• Bulgarian: маргари́н m (margarín)
• Catalan: margarina f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 植物牛油 (zik⁶ mat⁶ ngau⁴ jau⁴)

  Mandarin: 植物黃油 (zh), 植物黄油 (zh) (zhíwù huángyóu), 人造奶油 (zh) (rénzào nǎiyóu), 麥淇淋 (zh), 麦淇淋 (zh) (màiqílín), 瑪琪琳 (zh), 玛琪琳 (zh) (mǎqílín), 馬芝蓮 (zh), 马芝莲 (zh) (mǎzhīlián), 植物牛油 (zh) (zhíwù niúyóu)

• Czech: margarín (cs)
• Danish: margarine (da) c
• Dutch: margarine (nl) m
• Esperanto: margarino sg
• Estonian: margariin
• Faroese: margarin n
• Finnish: margariini (fi)
• French: margarine (fr) f
• Georgian: მარგარინი (margarini)
• German: Margarine (de) f
• Greek: μαργαρίνη (el) f (margaríni)
• Hebrew: מַרְגָּרִינָה‎ (he) f (margarina)
• Hindi: मार्जरीन (mārjarīn)
• Hungarian: margarin (hu)
• Hunsrik: Margarin f
• Icelandic: smjörlíki n
• Ido: margarino (io)
• Indonesian: margarin (id)
• Irish: buíoc m, margairín m
• Italian: margarina (it) f
• Japanese: マーガリン (māgarin)
• Kazakh: маргарин (margarin)
• Khmer: សេតវនីត (seetaʼvɔniit)

• Korean: 마가린 (ko) (magarin)
• Kyrgyz: маргарин (marğarin)
• Lao: ເນີຍໄຂສັດ (nœ̄i khai sat)
• Latvian: margarīns m
• Lithuanian: margarinas m
• Macedonian: маргарин m (margarin)
• Malay: marjerin
• Maori: pata parau, māheri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: margarin m

  Nynorsk: margarin m

• Persian: مارگارین‎ (fa) (mârgârin)
• Polish: margaryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: margarina (pt) f
• Romanian: margarină (ro) f
• Russian: маргари́н (ru) m (margarín)
• Scottish Gaelic: margarain m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: марга̀рӣн m

  Roman: margàrīn (sh) m

• Slovak: margarín m
• Slovene: margarina (sl) f
• Spanish: margarina (es) f
• Swedish: margarin (sv) n
• Tagalog: margarina (tl)
• Tajik: маргарин (margarin)
• Thai: เนยเทียม (th) (nəəi-tiiam)
• Turkish: margarin (tr)
• Turkmen: margarin
• Ukrainian: маргари́н m (marharýn)
• Urdu: مارجرین‎ (mārjarīn)
• Uzbek: margarin (uz)
• Vietnamese: bơ thực vật (vi)

Further reading

• margarine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French margarine, from Ancient Greek μάργαρον (márgaron, “pearl”) with the suffix -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑr.ɣaːˈri.nə/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: mar‧ga‧ri‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

Noun

margarine f (plural margarines)

1. margarine

Descendants

• → Indonesian: margarin

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French

Etymology

From acide margarique (“margaric acid”), from Ancient Greek μάργαρον (márgaron, “pearl”) with the suffix -ine, influenced by glycérine. French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul named margaric acid after its pearl-like crystallization.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʁ.ɡa.ʁin/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

margarine f (plural margarines)

1. margarine

Descendants

• → Catalan: margarina
• → Czech: margarín
• → Danish: margarine
• → Dutch: margarine
• → English: margarine (see there for further descendants)
• → German: Margarine (see there for further descendants)
• → Italian: margarina
• → Norwegian Bokmål: margarin
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: margarin
• → Polish: margaryna
• → Portuguese: margarina
• → Spanish: margarina
• → Swedish: margarin
• → Turkish: margarin

Further reading

• “margarine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

margarine f pl

1. plural of margarina

Anagrams

• marginare, marginerà, ramingare, rimangerà