margarine

See also: Margarine

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French margarine, from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs, “pearl”), in allusion to its pearly lustre.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.dʒə.ɹɪn/, /ˈmɑɹ.dʒəˌɹin/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.dʒə.ɹɪn/, /ˈmɑː.dʒəˌɹiːn/, /ˈmɑː.ɡəˌɹiːn/

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.

Translations

spread

• Arabic: سَمْن نَبَاتِيّ‎‎ m (samn nabātiyy)
• Armenian: մարգարին (hy) (margarin)
• Belarusian: маргары́н m (marharýn)
• Bulgarian: маргари́н m (margarín)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 植物牛油 (zik⁶ mat⁶ ngau⁴ jau⁴)

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

• Czech: margarín (cs)
• Dutch: margarine (nl) m
• 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)
• Icelandic: smjörlíki n
• Ido: margarino (io)
• Irish: buíoc m, margairín m
• Italian: margarina (it) f
• Japanese: マーガリン (māgarin)
• Korean: 마가린 (ko) (magarin)

• Latvian: margarīns m
• Lithuanian: margarinas m
• Macedonian: маргарин m (margarin)
• 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)
• 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)
• Thai: เนยเทียม (nəəi-tiiam)
• Turkish: margarin (tr)
• Ukrainian: маргари́н m (marharýn)
• Urdu: مارجرین‎‎ (mārjarīn)
• Vietnamese: bơ thực vật (vi)

Further reading

• margarine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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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/

Noun

margarine f (plural margarines)

1. margarine

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Italian

Noun

margarine f pl

1. plural of margarina

Anagrams

• marginare
• marginerà
• rimangerà