mayonnaise

See also: Mayonnaise

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French mayonnaise, possibly named after the city Maó, Minorca, whence the recipe was brought back to France. Compare Spanish mahonesa. Alternative suggested origins include the city of Bayonne (bayonnaise); the French word manier (“to handle”); the Old French moyeu (“egg yolk”); and the Duke of Mayenne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.ə.neɪz/, /ˌmeɪ.əˈneɪz/
• also IPA^(key): /ˈmæn.eɪz/, [ˈmɛən-]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪz

Mayonnaise

Noun

mayonnaise (countable and uncountable, plural mayonnaises)

1. A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks and seasoning, used on salads, with french fries, in sandwiches etc.
   • 1993, Eve Johnson, Title=Five Star Food:

     I grew up thinking that the blue and white Miracle Whip salad dressing jar in the fridge held the same substance the rest of the world knew as mayonnaise. / Now I know that mayonnaise is something entirely different.
2. Any cold dish with that dressing as an ingredient.

   We served a lobster mayonnaise as a starter.

4. Any cream, for example for moisturizing the face or conditioning the hair, for which the base is egg yolks and oil.

   hair mayonnaise, facial mayonnaise

   • 2016, Emma Tarlo, Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair, Oneworld Publications (→ISBN):

     They include cider vinegar, two pre-shampoo products, shampoo, conditioner, hair mayonnaise, oil, leave-in conditioner, end protector, revitalising styling spray and filtered water.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Rhea E. Santangelo, Grow It Girl! How I Took My Hair from Broken to Beautiful, Lulu.com (→ISBN), page 26:

     Then I implemented a lighter protein conditioner – such as hair mayonnaise, which I learned about from my cousin Renee – for the off weeks. I used this hidden gem in combination with olive oil (yes, I bought a kitchen bottle of olive oil – the same kind my grandmother used in every single delicious dish she ever cooked – strictly for use in my hair).

Synonyms

• mayo

Derived terms

• mayonnaiselike
• mayonnaisey

Translations

dressing

• Albanian: majonezë (sq) f
• Arabic: مَايُونِيز m (mayunīz)

  Egyptian Arabic: مايونيز m (mayunez)

• Armenian: մայոնեզ (hy) (mayonez)
• Assamese: মে’ওনিজ (mëüniz)
• Asturian: mayonesa f
• Azerbaijani: mayonez
• Basque: maionesa
• Belarusian: маянэ́з m (majanéz)
• Bengali: মেয়নেজ (meẏnej)
• Bulgarian: майоне́за f (majonéza)
• Catalan: maionesa (ca) f
• Cebuano: mayones
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蛋黃醬／蛋黄酱 (daan^6-2 wong^4-2 zoeng³), 蛋黄酱 (daan^6-2 wong^4-2 zoeng³)

  Mandarin: 美乃滋 (měinǎizī), 美乃滋醬／美乃滋酱 (zh) (měinǎizījiàng), 美乃滋酱 (zh) (měinǎizījiàng), 沙拉醬／沙拉酱 (shālājiàng), 沙拉酱 (shālājiàng), 蛋黃醬／蛋黄酱 (zh) (dànhuángjiàng), 蛋黄酱 (zh) (dànhuángjiàng)

• Czech: majonéza (cs) f
• Danish: mayonnaise (da) c, majonæse c
• Dutch: mayonaise (nl) m
• Esperanto: majonezo
• Estonian: majonees
• Faroese: majonesa f
• Finnish: majoneesi (fi)
• French: mayonnaise (fr) f
• Galician: maionesa f
• Georgian: მაიონეზი (maionezi)
• German: (reformed spelling) Majonäse (de) f, Mayonnaise (de) f, (colloquial) Majo (de) f, (colloquial) Mayo (de) f
• Greek: μαγιονέζα (el) f (magionéza)
• Haitian Creole: mayonèz
• Hebrew: מָיוֹנֶז (he) (mayonéz)
• Hindi: मेयोनेज़ (meyonez)
• Hungarian: majonéz (hu)
• Icelandic: majónes (is) n
• Indonesian: mayones (id)
• Irish: maonáis f
• Italian: maionese (it) f
• Japanese: マヨネーズ (ja) (mayonēzu)
• Kazakh: майонез (maionez)
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• Korean: 마요네즈 (ko) (mayonejeu)
• Kyrgyz: майонез (mayonez)
• Lao: ຊອດໄຂ່ແດງ (sǭt khai dǣng), ມາຢໍແນດ (mā yǭ nǣt)
• Latvian: majonēze f
• Lithuanian: majonezas f
• Macedonian: мајоне́з m (majonéz)
• Malay: mayonnaise, mayones
• Manx: sooslagh bwinnican
• Mongolian: майонез (majonez)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: majones m

  Nynorsk: majones m

• Persian: مایونز (fa) (mâyonez)
• Polish: majonez (pl) m
• Portuguese: maionese (pt) f
• Romanian: maioneză (ro)
• Russian: майоне́з (ru) m (majonɛ́z)
• Samoan: meio
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мајонеза f, мајонез m

  Roman: majoneza (sh) f, majonez m

• Slovak: majonéza (sk) f
• Slovene: majoneza (sl) f
• Spanish: mayonesa (es) f
• Swedish: majonnäs (sv)
• Tagalog: mayonesa, krema ng ensalada
• Tajik: майонез (mayonez)
• Thai: มายองเนส (maa-yɔng-nées)
• Turkish: mayonez (tr)
• Turkmen: maýonez
• Ukrainian: майоне́з m (majonéz)
• Urdu: میئونیز (meyonez)
• Uzbek: mayonez (uz)
• Vietnamese: may-on-ne, mai-o-ne
• Volapük: mäyonäd
• Welsh: mayonnaise (cy) m
• Yiddish: מאַיאָנעז m (mayonez)
• Zulu: mayonezi

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Danish

Alternative forms

• majonæse

Etymology

From French mayonnaise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /majonɛːsə/, [mɑjoˈnɛːsə]

Noun

mayonnaise c (singular definite mayonnaisen, plural indefinite mayonnaiser)

1. mayonnaise

Inflection

Declension of mayonnaise

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mayonnaise	mayonnaisen	mayonnaiser	mayonnaiserne
genitive	mayonnaises	mayonnaisens	mayonnaisers	mayonnaisernes

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French

Etymology

Possibly named after the city Maó, Minorca, whence the recipe was brought back to France. Alternative suggested origins include the city of Bayonne (bayonnaise); the French word manier (“to handle”); the Old French moyeu (“egg yolk”); and the Duke of Mayenne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.jɔ.nɛz/

• France:

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• Quebec:

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Noun

mayonnaise f (plural mayonnaises)

1. mayonnaise
2. (analogy, mechanics, familiar) milkshake (accidental emulsion of oil and water in an engine)

Descendants

• Danish: mayonnaise
• English: mayonnaise
• Greek: μαγιονέζα (magionéza)

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Noun

mayonnaise f (plural mayonnaises)

1. Dated spelling of maionese.