porridge

English

Alternative forms

• parritch (Scotland)
• porage, porrige (both obsolete)

Etymology

Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ/
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ɒɹɪdʒ

Noun

porridge (usually uncountable, plural porridges)

1. A dish made of grain or legumes, milk and/or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.

   Eat your porridge while it's hot!

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎^[1]:

     There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.

   1. (chiefly British) Oatmeal porridge.
   2. (Malaysia, Singapore) Rice porridge; congee.
2. (British, slang, uncountable) A prison sentence.

   Just do your porridge and keep your head down.

3. (rare) A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.

Derived terms

• do porridge
• keep one's breath to cool one's porridge
• pease porridge
• plain as porridge
• plum-porridge
• porridge belly
• porridge drawer
• porridge-stick
• porridge time
• save one's breath to cool one's porridge
• water-porridge

 

Translations

breakfast cereal dish — see also oatmeal

• Afrikaans: pap (af)
• Arabic: ثَرِيد m (ṯarīd), عَصِيدَة f (ʕaṣīda)
• Armenian: շիլա (hy) (šila)
• Azerbaijani: sıyıq
• Bashkir: бутҡа (butqa)
• Basque: ahi (eu), morokil
• Belarusian: ка́ша f (káša)
• Biatah Bidayuh: bubur
• Bulgarian: ка́ша (bg) f (káša)
• Catalan: farinetes (ca) f pl
• Chechen: худар (xudar)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 粥 (zuk¹) (rice), 麥片／麦片 (mak⁶ pin^3-2) (oats, oatmeal)

  Mandarin: 粥 (zh) (zhōu) (rice, buckwheat, oats, etc.)

• Cornish: yos kergh m
• Czech: kaše (cs) f
• Danish: grød (da) c
• Dutch: pap (nl) c
• Esperanto: griaĵo, kaĉo (eo)
• Estonian: puder (et)
• Faroese: greytur m
• Finnish: puuro (fi)
• French: bouillie (fr) f, porridge (fr) m, gruau (fr) m (Canada)
• Galician: papa (gl) f, papas f pl
• Georgian: ფაფა (papa)
• German: Brei (de) m
• Greek: χυλός (el) m (chylós), κουάκερ (el) n (kouáker)

  Ancient: ἀθάρη f (athárē), πτισάνη f (ptisánē) (made from barley), πόλτος (póltos) (made from wheat flour)

• Haitian Creole: labouyi
• Hebrew: דייסה f (daysá)
• Hungarian: kása (hu)
• Indonesian: bubur (id)
• Irish: leite f
• Japanese: ポリッジ (porijji), 粥 (ja) (かゆ, kayu, かい, kai, しゅく, shuku) (rice, buckweat, oats, etc.), 雑炊 (ja) (zousui)
• Kazakh: ботқа (botqa)
• Khmer: បបរ (km) (bɑbɑɑ)
• Kikuyu: ucoro
• Korean: 포리지 (poriji)
• Kyrgyz: ботко (ky) (botko)
• Latin: puls f, pappa f
• Latvian: putra f
• Lithuanian: košė f
• Luhya: bhuyu ?
• Luo: nyuka
• Macedonian: каша f (kaša)
• Malay: bubur (ms)
• Malayalam: കഞ്ഞി (ml) (kaññi) (congee)
• Maori: pāreti, pākū
• Mongolian: будаа (mn) (budaa)
• Nahuatl: pozōlli
• Nanai: балан (balan)
• Nivkh: ераӄ (jeraq)
• Northern Sami: buvru
• Norwegian: grøt (no) m
• Old English: brīw m
• Persian: فرنی (fa) (ferni), حریره (fa) (harire), هریسه (fa) (harise)
• Polish: owsianka (pl) f
• Portuguese: mingau (pt) (Brazil), papa (pt)
• Punjabi: ਦਲੀਆ ? (dalīā)
• Quechua: api
• Romanian: păsat (ro) n, terci (ro) n
• Russian: ка́ша (ru) f (káša), овся́нка (ru) f (ovsjánka)
• Scots: parritch
• Scottish Gaelic: lite f, brochan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: каша f

  Roman: kaša (sh) f

• Skolt Sami: hutt
• Slovak: kaša f
• Slovene: káša (sl) f
• Sotho: papa ?
• Spanish: gachas (es) f pl, puches (es) m, papilla (es) f
• Swahili: uji (sw) class 11
• Swedish: gröt (sv) c
• Tagalog: lugaw
• Tajik: шӯла (šüla)
• Tatar: ботка (tt) (botka)
• Tausug: biyugbug
• Telugu: అంబలి (te) (ambali)
• Tocharian B: onkarño ? (made from rice)
• Ukrainian: ка́ша f (káša)
• Uzbek: boʻtqa (uz)
• Vietnamese: cháo (vi)
• Welsh: uwd (cy) m
• Xhosa: ípápa class 9/10
• Zulu: ^{(please verify)} ípápa ?, ^{(please verify)} umdokwe ?

slang: prison sentence

• Finnish: kakku (fi)
• Hungarian: börtönbüntetés (hu)
• Polish: odsiadka (pl) f

See also

• congee
• gruel
• oatmeal
• stiff porridge

 

Further reading

• porridge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Périgord

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English porridge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.ʁidʒ/

• Audio

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Noun

porridge m (plural porridges)

1. porridge

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English porridge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.rid͡ʒ/

Noun

porridge n (uncountable)

1. porridge

Declension

declension of porridge (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) porridge	porridgeul
genitive/dative	(unui) porridge	porridgeului
vocative	porridgeule