omelette

See also: Omelette

English

An omelette.

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From French omelette, from alemette, from alemelle (“knife blade”), probably derived from la lemelle, from Latin lamella (“thin plate”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒm.lɪt/

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

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Noun

omelette (plural omelettes)

1. 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.
2. (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

• fried egg, frittata, quiche, scrambled eggs, scromlette

Derived terms

• chin omelette
• Denver omelette
• friar's omelette
• omelette Arnold Bennett
• Spanish omelette
• thick as a whale 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

• Albanian: omëletë (sq) f
• Arabic: عُجَّة‎ f (ʕujja)
• Armenian: ձվածեղ (hy) (jvaceġ), օմլետ (ōmlet)
• Azerbaijani: qayğanaq (az), omlet
• Belarusian: амле́т m (amljét), яе́чня f (jajéčnja)
• Bengali: অমলেট (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)
• 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: омлет (omlet)
• Khmer: ពងមាន់ចៀន (pɔɔng mŏən ciən)
• Korean: 오믈렛 (omeullet)
• Kyrgyz: омлет (omlet)
• Lao: ໄຂ່ຈືນ (lo) (khai chư̄n)
• Latvian: omlete f
• Lezgi: къайгъанах (q̄ajġanaχ)
• Lithuanian: omletas m
• Macedonian: омлет m (omlet), кајгана f (kajgana)
• Malay: telur dadar
• Maltese: froġa f
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: өндгөн жаврай (öndgön žavraj)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: omelett (no) m

• Persian: اُملِت‎ (fa) (omlet)
• 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
• Spanish: tortilla francesa f, tortilla (es) f (Spain)
• 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
• Venetian: 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

• Omelettes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

French

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
• → Danish: omelet
• → Portuguese: omelete, omeleta; omelette
• → 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