sandwich

See also: Sandwich and sándwich

English

An Italian sandwich.

a composite material sandwich with a honeycomb core

Etymology

Named after its supposed inventor, the Earl of Sandwich (see Sandwich).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsæn(d)wɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈsæn(d)wɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈsæmwɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈsæ̃wɪd͡ʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈsæmˌwɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈsæmˌɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈsæ̃ˌwɪt͡ʃ/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: SDCH

Pronunciation notes

As a very common snack food throughout the Anglosphere, the word sandwich as spelt is prone to many variations of common pronunciation.

• The most variable component the word's pronunciation is the -ndw- cluster. The most common realization in the United Kingdom and in the United States is /-nw-/. In the United States, /-ndw-/, /-mw-/, /-m-/ and /-w̃-/ can also be heard.
• The pronunciation of the final consonant -ch follows a pattern common to most -wich words; that is, usually/-dʒ/ in the United Kingdom and /-tʃ/ in the United States.

Noun

sandwich (plural sandwiches or sandwichs)

1. A dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other food.
   • 2002, Serena Carrington, Avalon, Writers Club Press, p.92:

     He laid out a linen tablecloth and a few sandwichs from some bread, dressing, and beef.

   • 2012, Allie McNeil, Watergate Summer, AuthorHouse, p.160:

     And the only "care" I could offer was egg sandwichs and Lilly's unfaltering attention.

2. (by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
3. (Britain) A layer cake or sandwich cake.
   • 2016, Alysa Levene, Cake: A Slice of History:

     […] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoria sandwiches baked by male bakers.

Usage notes

• In Ireland and the UK, sandwich often presupposes sliced bread, in which case similar foods made with other types of bread are called "filled roll", "filled bap", etc.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:sandwich

Hyponyms

• (closed, ground beef, on a bun): hamburger, burger
• (closed, other meats, on a bun): -burger, hot dog
• (closed, ground beef, on bread): patty melt

Derived terms

• barley sandwich (a beer, Canada)
• club sandwich
• croissandwich
• Dagwood sandwich
• Dutch sandwich
• fishwich
• Gerber sandwich
• knuckle sandwich
• mother-in-law sandwich
• nothing sandwich
• open sandwich
• sammich (eye dialect)
• sando
• sandwichable
• sandwich board
• sandwich course
• sandwich degree
• sandwich pick
• sandwich round
• sandwich spread
• sandwichy
• shit sandwich
• soup sandwich
• thick sandwich course

 

Descendants

Descendants of sandwich in other languages

• Arabic: سَانْدَوِيتْش‎ (sandawitš)
• Catalan: sandvitx
• Chinese: 三明治 (sānmíngzhì), 三文治 (sānwénzhì)
• Czech: sendvič
• Danish: sandwich
• Dutch: sandwich
• Esperanto: sandviĉo
• French: sandwich

  Norman French: sannouiche

• Georgian: სენდვიჩი (sendviči)
• German: Sandwich
• Greek: σάντουιτς (sántouits)
• Hawaiian: kanauika
• Hindi: सैंडविच (saiṇḍvic)
• Hungarian: szendvics
• Ido: sandwicho
• Japanese: サンドイッチ (sandoitchi)
• Korean: 샌드위치 (saendeuwichi)
• Marshallese: jāānwūj
• Norman: sannouiche
• Norwegian: sandwich
• Persian: ساندویچ‎ (sândevič)
• Polish: sandwicz
• Portuguese: sanduíche (Brazil), sandes (Portugal)
• Romanian: sandviș
• Russian: са́ндвич (sándvič), сэ́ндвич (sɛ́ndvič)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: се̏ндвич

  Latin: sȅndvič

• Sinhalese: සැන්ඩ්විච් (sænḍwic)
• Slovene: sendvič
• Spanish: sándwich, sánduche (Colombia, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Venezuela), sánguche (Argentina, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela)
• Swedish: sandwich
• Tibetan: སན་ཊ་ཝིཆི (san ṭa wichi)
• Turkish: sandviç
• Urdu: سینڈوچ‎ (saiṇḍavic)
• Vietnamese: xăng duych
• Volapük: sändvig
• Bengali: স্যান‌্উইজ (śjanô‌uij)

Translations

snack consisting of two slices of bread

• Afrikaans: toebroodjie (af)
• Albanian: sanduiç m, sandviç m
• American Sign Language: FlatB@FromMouth-PalmDown-FlatB@Palm-PalmUp FlatB@NearMouth-FlatB@Palm, BentB@BackHand-PalmBack-BentB@NearMouth-PalmBack BentB@BackHand-BentB@Mouth, BentB@PalmChesthigh-PalmBackThumbAside-B@FromMouth-PalmBack
• Arabic: سَانْدَوِيتْش‎ m (sandawitš), شَطِيرَة‎ f (šaṭīra)

  Egyptian Arabic: سندويتش‎ m (sandawetš)

• Armenian: սենդվիչ (hy) (sendvičʿ)
• Azerbaijani: sandviç, dürtmək, buterbrod
• Belarusian: сэ́ндвіч m (séndvič), бутэрбро́д m (buterbród)
• Bengali: স্যান্ডউইচ (śjanḍôuic)
• Breton: sandwich m
• Bulgarian: са́ндвич m (sándvič)
• Burmese: ဆန်းဒဝစ် (hcan:da.wac), အသားညှပ်မုန့် (my) (a.sa:hnyapmun.)
• Catalan: entrepà (ca) m, sandvitx (ca) m, badall (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎠᏍᏛᎭᏟ (asdvhatli)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 三文治 (saam¹ man⁴ zi⁶)

  Hakka: 三明治 (sâm-mìn-chhṳ)

  Mandarin: 三明治 (zh) (sānmíngzhì), 三文治 (zh) (sānwénzhì), 三味治 (sānwèizhì)

• Cornish: baramanyn m, maw m
• Czech: sendvič (cs) m
• Danish: sandwich (da), (local) amagermad
• Dutch: boterham (nl) m, sandwich (nl) m
• Esperanto: sandviĉo (eo)
• Estonian: võileib, sandvitš
• Faroese: tvíflís f
• Finnish: kerrosvoileipä (fi), voileipä (fi)
• French: sandwich (fr) m
• Galician: sándwich (gl) m, bocadillo (gl) m
• Georgian: სენდვიჩი (sendviči), ბუტერბროდი (buṭerbrodi)
• German: belegtes Brot n, Sandwich (de) n or m, Stulle (de) f, Schnitte (de) f
• Greek: σάντουιτς (el) n (sántouits)

  Ancient: (with meat) ἀρτόκρεας n (artókreas), (with cheese) ἀρτότυρος m (artóturos)

• Hawaiian: kanauika
• Hebrew: כָּרִיך‎ (he) m (karíkh), סֶנדוִיץ׳‎ m (séndvich)
• Hindi: सैंडविच m (saiṇḍvic)
• Hungarian: szendvics (hu)
• Icelandic: samloka (is) f
• Ido: sandwicho (io), sandwich (io)
• Indonesian: roti lapis, sandwich
• Irish: ceapaire (ga) m
• Italian: tramezzino (it) m, panino (it) m
• Japanese: サンドイッチ (ja) (sandoitchi), サンド (ja) (sando)
• Kazakh: сэндвич (séndvïç), бутерброд (kk) (bwterbrod)
• Khmer: នំបុ័ងដាក់សាច់ (numpong dak sac)
• Korean: 샌드위치 (ko) (saendeuwichi)
• Kyrgyz: сэндвич (ky) (sendviç), бутерброд (ky) (buterbrod)

• Lao: ເຂົ້າຈີ່ຢັດໄສ້ (khao chī yat sai)
• Latvian: sendvičs m
• Lithuanian: sumuštinis m
• Macedonian: сендвич m (sendvič)
• Malay: roti lapis, sandwic
• Manx: braghtan
• Maori: hanawiti
• Marshallese: jāānwūj
• Mongolian: хачиртай талх (khachirtai talkh), сэндвич (sendvich)
• Navajo: bááh atsįʼ bił ałchʼįʼ ádaatʼéhígíí, atsįʼ bááh bił ałchʼįʼ átʼéhígíí
• Norman: sannouiche f (Jersey), beurrée f (Jersey), doraïe f (Guernsey)
• Northern Sami: vuodjaláibi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sandwich m, (open) smørbrød (no) n

  Nynorsk: sandwich m, (open) smørbrød n

• Persian: ساندویچ‎ (fa) (sândevič)
• Plautdietsch: Sandwich f
• Polish: kanapka (pl) f
• Portuguese: sanduíche (pt) m (Brazil), sandes f (Portugal), sanduba (Brazil)
• Romanian: sandviș (ro) n, tartină (ro) f
• Russian: са́ндвич (ru) m (sándvič), сэ́ндвич (ru) m (sɛ́ndvič), бутербро́д (ru) m (buterbród, butɛrbród)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceapaire m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: се̏ндвич m

  Roman: sȅndvič (sh) m

• Sinhalese: සැන්ඩ්විච් (sænḍwic)
• Slovak: sendvič m, obložený chlieb m
• Slovene: sendvič (sl) m
• Spanish: sándwich (es) m, (Colombia, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Venezuela) sánduche, (Argentina, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela) sánguche (es), (Caribbean) emparedado (es) m, (Mexico) torta (es) f, (Spain) bocadillo (es) m, (Spain) bocata m
• Swedish: dubbelmacka (sv) c, (also for open sandwiches) macka (sv) c, sandwich (sv)
• Tajik: сандвич (sandvič)
• Telugu: అప్పచ్చి (te) (appacci)
• Thai: แซนด์วิช (th) (sɛɛn-wít)
• Tibetan: སན་ཊ་ཝིཆི (san ṭa wichi)
• Turkish: sandviç (tr)
• Turkmen: buterbrod (tk), sandwiç
• Ukrainian: се́ндвіч m (séndvič), бутербро́д (uk) m (buterbród)
• Urdu: سینڈوچ‎ m (sainḍvic)
• Uyghur: ساندۋىچ‎ (sandwich)
• Uzbek: sandvich, buterbrod (uz)
• Vietnamese: bánh mì (vi) (also means "bread"), bánh mì kẹp, xăng-đuých (vi) (rare), xăng-uých
• Volapük: sändvig
• Welsh: brechdan (cy)
• West Frisian: brogge
• Yiddish: שניטקע‎ f (shnitke), סענדוויטש‎ m (sendvitsh)
• Yoruba: san-wiiṣi

open sandwich — see open sandwich

layers of material

• Finnish: sandwich (fi)

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Translations to be checked

• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} obložený chlebíček m (1), ^{(please verify)} sendvič m (1)

Verb

sandwich (third-person singular simple present sandwiches, present participle sandwiching, simple past and past participle sandwiched)

1. To place one item between two other, usually flat, items
2. (figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.
   • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.

Translations

to place one item between two other, usually flat, items

• Finnish: kerrostaa
• German: einklemmen (de), einzwängen
• Japanese: サンドする (ja) (sando suru)

• Maori: karapiti
• Russian: зажима́ть (ru) impf (zažimátʹ), зажа́ть (ru) pf (zažátʹ), вти́скивать (ru) impf (vtískivatʹ), вти́снуть (ru) pf (vtísnutʹ)
• Vietnamese: kẹp (vi), khoác (vi)

Adjective

sandwich (not comparable)

1. (US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

Usage notes

• The adjective sense is used primarily by restaurants specializing in barbecue, and does not imply that the meal includes an actual sandwich.

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sanvitsj/, [ˈsanˌʋid̥ɕ], [ˈsanˌwid̥ɕ], [ˈsanˌʋid̥s]

Noun

sandwich c (singular definite sandwichen, plural indefinite sandwich or sandwicher)

1. sandwich

Inflection

Declension of sandwich

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sandwich	sandwichen	sandwich sandwicher	sandwichene sandwicherne
genitive	sandwichs	sandwichens	sandwichs sandwichers	sandwichenes sandwichernes

Derived terms

• bøfsandwich
• flæskestegssandwich
• sandwichbar
• sandwichbrød
• sandwichfyld
• sandwichkonstruktion
• skinkesandwich
• tunsandwich

 

References

• “sandwich” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich, after the Earl of Sandwich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnd.ʋɪtʃ/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: sand‧wich

Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwiches, diminutive sandwichje n)

1. sandwich

Usage notes

• A sandwich is more commonly called a boterham (which may also denote a single slice of bread) or a broodje (which may also denote a bun or roll) in Dutch.

Derived terms

• sandwichman

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.dwiʃ/, /sɑ̃.dwitʃ/

• audio

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Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwichs or sandwiches)

1. sandwich (food)

Usage notes

• French does not follow the English rule of adding es to nouns ending in the sound /tʃ/. Since the final /s/ is not pronounced in the plural, there is no difficulty in pronouncing the plural formed by adding s rather than es.

Derived terms

• sandwicherie
• croissandwich
• prendre en sandwich

Further reading

• “sandwich” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛndwitʃ/

Noun

sandwich m (invariable)

1. sandwich

Derived terms

• sandwicheria f

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English sandwich

Noun

sandwich m (definite singular sandwichen, indefinite plural sandwicher, definite plural sandwichene)

1. a sandwich

References

• “sandwich” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sandwich” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English sandwich, supposedly named for its inventor, the Earl of Sandwich.

Noun

sandwich m (definite singular sandwichen, indefinite plural sandwichar, definite plural sandwichane)

1. a sandwich

References

• “sandwich” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Spanish

Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwiches)

1. Misspelling of sándwich.