savory

See also: Savory

English

Alternative forms

• savoury (British; usually only for etymology 1)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪvəɹi/

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Etymology 1

From the Middle English savory, savourie, from Old French savouré, from Old French savourer, from Late Latin sapōrāre, present active infinitive of sapōrō, from Latin sapor (“taste, flavour”), from sapiō, sapere (“taste of, have a flavour of”).

Adjective

savory (comparative savorier, superlative savoriest) (American spelling)

1. Tasty, attractive to the palate.

   The fine restaurant presented an array of savory dishes; each was delicious.

2. Salty and/or spicy, but not sweet.

   The mushrooms, meat, bread, rice, peanuts and potatoes were all good savory foods.

3. umami, modern (clarification of this definition is needed)

   The savory rabbit soup contrasted well with the sweet cucumber sandwiches with jam.

4. (figuratively) Morally or ethically acceptable.

   Readers are to be warned that quotations in this chapter contain some not so savory language.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:delicious

Translations

tasty, attractive to the palate

• Albanian: ngjelmë
• Arabic: شَهِيّ (šahiyy), مَرِيء (marīʔ)
• Armenian: համեղ (hy) (hameġ)
• Bulgarian: вкусен (bg) (vkusen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香 (zh) (xiāng), 好吃 (zh) (hǎochī), 鮮美／鲜美 (zh) (xiānměi)

• Dutch: smakelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: bongusta (eo)
• Estonian: maitsev (et)
• Finnish: maukas (fi), ruokahalua herättävä
• French: savoureux (fr), délicieux (fr)
• Friulian: gustôs
• Galician: saboroso (gl)
• German: schmackhaft (de), köstlich (de), lecker (de)
• Greek: νόστιμος (el) (nóstimos)
• Hebrew: ערב (he) (arév)
• Hungarian: ízes (hu)
• Indonesian: sedap (id)
• Italian: saporito (it), gustoso (it)
• Japanese: 香ばしい (ja) (こうばしい, kōbashii), 美味しい (ja) (おいしい, oishii)
• Latin: sapidus
• Manx: blasstal
• Maori: mākarakara, mōkarakara
• Polish: smaczny (pl), smakowity (pl)
• Portuguese: saboroso (pt), apetitoso (pt), gostoso (pt)
• Romanian: savuros (ro)
• Russian: аппети́тный (ru) (appetítnyj), вку́сный (ru) (vkúsnyj), пика́нтный (ru) (pikántnyj) (piquant), о́стрый (ru) (óstryj) (spicy), пря́ный (ru) (prjányj) (spicy, heady)
• Serbo-Croatian: slasno (sh)
• Slovak: chutný, výrazne ochutený
• Slovene: okusen
• Spanish: sabroso (es), apetitoso (es)
• Swedish: välsmakande (sv)
• Thai: รสอูมามิ, อูมามิ (uu-maa-mí)
• Welsh: sawrus (cy)

salty or non-sweet

• Arabic: مالح
• Armenian: բարկահամ (hy) (barkaham), կծու (hy) (kcu), աղի (hy) (aġi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鹹／咸 (haam⁴)

  Hokkien: 鹹／咸 (zh-min-nan) (kiâm)

  Mandarin: 鹹／咸 (zh) (xián)

• Dutch: hartig (nl)
• Esperanto: salgusta
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: suolainen (fi)
• French: salé (fr)
• Galician: salgado (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: herzhaft (de), pikant (de)
• Greek: αλμυρός (el) (almyrós)
• Hebrew: מלוח (he) (malúakh)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: pikáns (hu)
• Indonesian: gurih (id)
• Italian: salato (it)
• Japanese: 旨味 (ja) (うまみ, umami), 塩辛い (ja) (しおからい, shiokarai)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: niesłodki, pikantny (pl), wytrawny (pl)
• Portuguese: salgado (pt), de sal
• Romanian: sărat (ro)
• Russian: солёный (ru) (soljónyj), пикантный (ru) (pikantnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: slano
• Slovak: slaný (sk)
• Spanish: salado (es), de sal
• Swedish: salt (sv)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: รสอูมามิ, อูมามิ (uu-maa-mí)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: safri

See also

Basic tastes in English (layout · text)
sweet	sour	salty	bitter	spicy	savory

• umami

Noun

savory (plural savories)

1. (American spelling) A savory snack.
   • 2007 April 18, Florence Fabricant, “Off the Menu”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     On Friday the pastry chef Pichet Ong will open his own cafe, with sweets and savories served at tables and a counter.

Etymology 2

Wikispecies From Middle English saverey, possibly from Old English sæþerie, from Latin satureia, influenced by or via Old French savereie.

Noun

savory (countable and uncountable, plural savories)

1. Any of several Mediterranean herbs, of the genus Satureja, grown as culinary flavourings.
2. The leaves of these plants used as a flavouring.

Derived terms

• summer savory (Satureja hortensis)
• winter savory (Satureja montana)

Translations

herb of genus Satureja

• Albanian: shtërmen (sq) m, thrumbishtë (sq) f
• Arabic: نَدْغ m (nadḡ)
• Armenian: կորթին (hy) (kortʻin), ծոթրին (hy) (cotʻrin), կորդյուն (hy) (kordyun), ծիթրոն (hy) (citʻron), մարզա (hy) (marza)
• Bulgarian: чу́брица (bg) f (čúbrica)
• Czech: saturejka (cs) f
• Danish: sar (da) c
• Dutch: bonenkruid (nl) n
• Finnish: kynteli (fi)
• French: sarriette (fr) f
• Galician: segorella f
• Georgian: ქონდარი (kondari)
• German: Bohnenkraut (de) n
• Greek: θρούμπι (el) n (throúmpi), θρούμπη (el) f (throúmpi)

  Ancient: θύμβρα f (thúmbra)

• Hungarian: csombord (hu), borsikafű (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: santoreggia (it) f
• Japanese: キダチハッカ (kidachihakka), セイボリー (seiborī)
• Latin: cunela f, satureia f
• Macedonian: чубрика f (čubrika)
• Persian: مرزه (fa) (marze)
• Polish: cząber (pl) m
• Portuguese: segurelha (pt) f
• Romanian: cimbru (ro) m
• Russian: сатуре́я (ru) f (saturéja), ча́бер (ru) m (čáber)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чу̏бар m, ври̑сак m

  Latin: čȕbar (sh) m, vrȋsak (sh) m

• Slovene: šetraj m, čober m
• Spanish: ajedrea (es) f
• Swedish: kyndel (sv) c
• Turkish: zahter (tr) – however, like zaatar, the name is also used for other similar herbs
• Ukrainian: чабе́р m (čabér)
• Welsh: sewyrllys m, safri f

References

• “savory”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.