tasting

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪstɪŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English tastynge, taastyng, equivalent to taste +‎ -ing (gerundive ending).

Noun

tasting (plural tastings)

1. A small amount of food or drink.
2. The taking of a small amount of food or drink into the mouth in order to taste it.

Synonyms

• degustation

Derived terms

• tasting menu
• winetasting

Translations

small amount of food or drink

• Finnish: maistiainen (fi)
• Italian: degustazione (it) f, assaggio (it) m

• Russian: (piece or slice) кусо́чек (ru) m (kusóček), (swallow, gulp) глото́к (ru) m (glotók)

taking of a small amount of food or drink in order to taste it

• Armenian: համտես (hy) (hamtes)
• Catalan: tast (ca) m, degustació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 品嘗 (zh) or 品嚐 (zh), 品尝 (zh) (pǐncháng)

• Czech: degustace f
• Finnish: maistiainen (fi)
• French: dégustation (fr) f
• German: Verkostung (de) f, Degustation f

• Hungarian: kóstolás
• Italian: degustazione (it) f, assaggio (it) m
• Japanese: 賞味 (しょうみ, shōmi)
• Portuguese: degustação (pt) f
• Russian: дегуста́ция (ru) f (degustácija), про́ба (ru) f (próba) (ку́шанья или напи́тка)
• Spanish: degustación f
• Vietnamese: sự nếm thử

Etymology 2

From Middle English tastinge, taastynge, equivalent to taste +‎ -ing (present participle ending).

Verb

tasting

1. present participle of taste

Anagrams

• stating