seitan

See also: Seitan

English

Seitan slices

Etymology

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term was coined in Japanese in the early 1960s by philosopher George Ohsawa to refer to wheat gluten as used in Ohsawa's macrobiotic system of cooking and health. The exact derivation is uncertain. The first syllable may be from 生 (sei, “life”), 正 (sei, “proper, correct”), or 製 (sei, “made of”), while the second syllable is from 蛋 (tan, from 蛋白 (tanpaku, “protein”)). In Japan, wheat gluten itself is usually referred to as 麩 (fu, “wheat bran, gluten”), while seitan in particular is generally written in katakana as セイタン. Another common term for this is グルテンミート (“gluten meat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪtən/, /ˈseɪtɑn/, /ˈseɪtan/
• Rhymes: -eɪtən
• Homophone: Satan

Noun

seitan (uncountable)

1. Specially processed wheat gluten, used as a protein-rich food.
   • 1994, Leonard Jacobs, Cooking with Seitan: The Complete Vegetarian "wheat-meat" Cookbook, Penguin →ISBN, page 28

     Pan-simmer baked seitan cutlets in Basic Broth (page 20) or other seasoned stock for 15 minutes.

   • 2007 July 13, C. J. Hughes, “Amid the Ruins of the Bungalow Era, a Weekenders’ Revival”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Fifty people […] ordered from a diverse menu that included vegan options like wheatgrass shots ($4) and seitan cutlets ($16).

Derived terms

• seitanic

Translations

wheat gluten

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麵筋 (zh), 面筋 (zh) (miànjīn)

• Esperanto: sejtano m
• Finnish: seitan
• French: seitan (fr) m
• Galician: seitán m

• German: Seitan m or n
• Hungarian: szejtán
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: seitan (pt) m
• Spanish: seitán m

Further reading

• seitan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• wheat gluten (Q943935)
• Cookbook:Seitan on Wikibooks.Wikibooks
• Seitan on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “seitan” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• Eastin, Setian, Teians, anties, satiné, seatin', sentai, teasin', tenias, tineas, tisane

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Basque

Numeral

seitan

1. inessive indefinite of sei

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsei̯tɑn/, [ˈs̠e̞i̯t̪ɑn]
• Rhymes: -eitɑn
• Syllabification: sei‧tan

Noun

seitan

1. seitan

Declension

Inflection of seitan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		seitan	seitanit
genitive		seitanin	seitanien
partitive		seitania	seitaneja
illative		seitaniin	seitaneihin
		singular	plural
nominative		seitan	seitanit
accusative	nom.	seitan	seitanit
	gen.	seitanin
genitive		seitanin	seitanien
partitive		seitania	seitaneja
inessive		seitanissa	seitaneissa
elative		seitanista	seitaneista
illative		seitaniin	seitaneihin
adessive		seitanilla	seitaneilla
ablative		seitanilta	seitaneilta
allative		seitanille	seitaneille
essive		seitanina	seitaneina
translative		seitaniksi	seitaneiksi
instructive		—	seitanein
abessive		seitanitta	seitaneitta
comitative		—	seitaneineen

Possessive forms of seitan (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	seitanini	seitanimme
2nd person	seitanisi	seitaninne
3rd person	seitaninsa

Anagrams

• asetin, astein, naiset, satein, tasein

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Italian

Etymology

Japanese

Noun

seitan m (invariable)

1. seitan

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Japanese

Romanization

seitan

1. Rōmaji transcription of せいたん
2. Rōmaji transcription of セイタン