satay

English

WOTD – 28 March 2009

Satay served with peanut sauce, cucumber, and onion

Alternative forms

• satai
• saté
• sate
• sateh

Etymology

From Malay sate (“satay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsæt.eɪ/, /ˈsɑː.teɪ/

  Rhymes: -æteɪ

• IPA^(key): /sæˈteɪ/, /sɑːˈteɪ/

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  Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

satay (countable and uncountable, plural satays)

1. A dish made from small pieces of meat or fish grilled on a skewer and served with a spicy peanut sauce, originating from Indonesia and Malaysia.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 107:

     Crabbe bought sateh for all: tiny knobs and wedges of fire-hot meat on wooden skewers, to be dipped in a lukewarm sauce of fire and eaten with slivers of sweet potato and cucumber.

Translations

dish

• Arabic: سَاتِيه m (sātīh)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 沙爹 (sa^1-3 de¹), 沙嗲 (sa^1-3 de¹)

  Mandarin: 沙茶 (zh) (shāchá), 沙爹 (zh) (shādiē), 沙嗲 (shādiǎ)

  Min Nan: 沙茶 (zh-min-nan) (sa-te)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: saté (nl) m
• Finnish: satay, satay-vartaat
• French: satay (fr) m, saté (fr) m
• German: Satay, Saté
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: szaté
• Indonesian: sate (id)
• Italian: saté m
• Japanese: サテ (sate)
• Javanese: saté
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• Korean: 사테 (sate)
• Malay: sate
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: satay m, saté n
• Portuguese: satay m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: сата́й m (satáj), сате́ n (saté), сатэ́ n (satɛ́)
• Spanish: satay m
• Sundanese: saté
• Swedish: satay
• Tagalog: satay
• Thai: สะเต๊ะ (th) (sà-dté)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: satê

Further reading

• satay on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• astay, ayats

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Portuguese

Noun

satay m (plural s)

1. satay (Indonesian and Malaysian meat dish)