omelette

See also: Omelette

English

An omelette.

Alternative forms

• omelet (US)
• omlette, omlet (obsolete or misspelling)

Etymology

First attested in 1611; borrowed from French omelette, which see for further etymology.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒm.lɪt/

• Audio (UK):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɔm.lət/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɑm.lət/, /ˈɑm.lɪt/, /ˈɑ.mə.lət/

• Audio (Canada):

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Noun

omelette (countable and uncountable, plural omelettes)

2. A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with other foodstuffs, for example cheese or chives.
   • 1912, Marjorie Bowen [pseudonym; Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long], “The Heretic”, in The Quest of Glory, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. […], part I (The Quest Joyful), pages 69–70:

     He crossed to the window, which looked on to a herb garden, and seated himself on the chintz-covered window-seat and delicately watched the two, who were engaged in eating omelette and salad at a round table near the fire-place.

   • 1969, J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley, “London End”, in The Image Men, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 288:

     She had never meant to confide in him — certainly not here, eating omelette and cheese sauce — but that look seemed to demand a confidence.

   • 1985, Christine Pullein-Thompson, Wait for Me Phantom horse, London: Award Publications Limited, published 1997, →ISBN, page 64:

     She stayed to lunch that day, eating omelette and peas in the kitchen, followed by treacle tart.

3. (computing) A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed.
   • 2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium:

     This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.

Coordinate terms

• boiled egg
• fried egg
• frittata
• poached egg
• quiche
• scrambled egg
• scromlette

Derived terms

• chin omelette
• Denver omelette
• friar's omelette
• omelette Arnold Bennett
• omelette-y
• omelettey
• omeletty
• oyster omelette
• scromlette
• Spanish omelette
• special omelette
• thick as a whale omelette
• tornado omelette
• you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
• you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette

Translations

dish made with beaten eggs

• Afrikaans: omelet
• Albanian: omëletë (sq) f
• Arabic: عِجَّة f (ʕijja)
• Armenian: ձվածեղ (hy) (jvaceġ), օմլետ (ōmlet)
• Azerbaijani: qayğanaq (az), omlet
• Belarusian: амле́т m (amljét), яе́чня f (jajéčnja)
• Bengali: অমলেট (bn) (omoleṭ)
• Bulgarian: омле́т (bg) m (omlét)
• Catalan: truita (ca) f, truita a la francesa f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 奄列 / 唵列 (am¹ lit⁶)

  Mandarin: 煎蛋餅 / 煎蛋饼 (zh) (jiāndànbǐng), 煎蛋卷 (zh) (jiāndànjuǎn), 攤雞蛋 / 摊鸡蛋 (zh) (tānjīdàn)

• Czech: omeleta (cs) f
• Danish: omelet c
• Dutch: omelet (nl) f
• Esperanto: omleto
• Estonian: omlett
• Finnish: munakas (fi), omeletti (fi)
• French: omelette (fr) f
• Galician: tortilla francesa f, tortilla (gl) f, freixó (gl) m, torromica f
• Georgian: ომლეტი (omleṭi), ერბო-კვერცხი (erbo-ḳvercxi)
• German: Omelett (de) n
• Greek: ομελέτα (el) f (omeléta)
• Gujarati: ઓમલેટ n (omaleṭ)
• Hebrew: חֲבִיתָה (he) f (khavitá)
• Hindi: ऑमलेट m (ŏmleṭ), आमलेट (hi) m (āmleṭ)
• Hungarian: omlett (hu), tojáslepény (hu)
• Icelandic: ommeletta f
• Ido: omleto (io)
• Indonesian: telur dadar (id)
• Interlingua: omelette
• Irish: uibheagán m
• Italian: omelette (it) f, (with vegetables, cheeses, etc.) frittata (it) f
• Japanese: オムレツ (ja) (omuretsu)
• Kazakh: өмлет (ömlet)
• Khmer: ពងមាន់ចៀន (pɔɔng mŏən ciən)
• Korean: 오믈렛 (omeullet)
• Kyrgyz: омлет (omlet)
• Lao: ໄຂ່ຈືນ (lo) (khai chư̄n)
• Latin: ova spongia n pl
• Latvian: omlete f
• Lezgi: къайгъанах (q̄ajġanaꭓ)
• Lithuanian: omletas m
• Macedonian: омлет m (omlet), кајгана f (kajgana)
• Malay: telur dadar (ms)
• Maltese: froġa f
• Marathi: आमलेट n (āmleṭ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: өндгөн жаврай (öndgön žavraj)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: omelett (no) m

• Persian: اُملِت (fa) (omlet), خاگینه (fa) (xâgine)
• Polish: omlet (pl) m
• Portuguese: omelete (pt) f, fritada (pt) f
• Romanian: omletă (ro)
• Russian: омле́т (ru) m (omlét), яи́чница (ru) f (jaíčnica)
• Scottish Gaelic: bonnach-uighe m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀млет m

  Roman: òmlet (sh) m

• Slovak: omeleta f
• Slovene: omleta (sl) f
• Sotho: omelete
• Spanish: tortilla francesa f, tortilla (es) f (Spain), torreja (es) f, omelette m or f (omelet), omelet (es) m or f, homelet m or f (Latin America)
• Swedish: omelett (sv) c
• Tajik: омлет (omlet), тухмбирён (tuxmbiryon)
• Thai: ไข่เจียว (th) (kài-jiao), ไข่ฟู (th) (kài-fuu), ไข่ทอด (kài-tɔ̂ɔt)
• Turkish: omlet (tr), kaygana (tr)
• Ukrainian: омле́т (uk) m (omlét), яє́чня (uk) f (jajéčnja)
• Urdu: آمْلیٹ (ur) m (āmleṭ)
• Uzbek: omlet
• Venetan: fortaja (vec) f, fritata f
• Veps: munarič
• Vietnamese: trứng đổ chả, trứng tráng, trứng ốp lết
• Volapük: moelät (vo)
• Welsh: omled m
• Yiddish: אָמלעט m (omlet), פֿײַנקוכן m (faynkukhn), פּרעזשעניצע f (prezhenitse), יאַיִטשניצע f (yaitshnitse)

Verb

omelette (third-person singular simple present omelettes, present participle omeletting, simple past and past participle omeletted)

1. To make into an omelette
   • 2000, Rajnit Rai, Curry, Curry, Curry:

     This recipe may be adapted for scrambled eggs, i.e., instead of omeletting the eggs, simply scramble them.

   • 2001, David Mitchell, chapter 1, in number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

     'Your main concern should not be practical ethics, but to dissuade me from omeletting you.'

See also

• Category:Omelettes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French amelette, derived by metathesis from older alemette, itself an alteration of alemelle (“blade”), probably rebracketed from la (definite article, "the") lemelle (“blade”), diminutive of lame or directly derived from Latin lamella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔm.lɛt/

Noun

omelette f (plural omelettes)

1. omelette

Derived terms

• on ne fait pas d'omelette sans casser des œufs

Descendants

• → English: omelette, omelet
• → Persian: املت (omlet)
• → German: Omelett
• → Danish: omelet
• → Portuguese: omelete, omeleta, omelette (unadapted spelling)
• → Russian: омле́т (omlét)

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Noun

omelette (plural omelettes)

1. omelette

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French omelette.

Noun

omelette f (invariable)

1. omelette

Anagrams

• temetelo

Portuguese

Noun

omelette f (plural omelettes)

1. alternative form of omelete