vinegar

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Middle English vynegre, borrowed from Old French vinaigre from Old French vyn egre, based on Latin vīnum (“wine”) + Latin acer (“sour”). Displaced Old English æċed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪnəɡɚ/

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Noun

vinegar (countable and uncountable, plural vinegars)

1. (uncountable) A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid.
2. (countable) Any variety of vinegar.

   a range of herb-flavoured vinegars

Derived terms

Terms derived from "vinegar"

• apple cider vinegar
• aromatic vinegar
• balsamic vinegar
• cane vinegar
• champagne vinegar
• chili vinegar
• Chinese red vinegar
• cider vinegar
• coconut vinegar
• fruit vinegar
• full of piss and vinegar
• herb vinegar
• it is better to be preserved in vinegar than to rot in honey
• malt vinegar

• mother of vinegar
• piss and vinegar
• pyroligneous vinegar
• quick vinegar
• radical vinegar
• raspberry vinegar
• rice vinegar
• rose vinegar
• salt and vinegar
• sherry vinegar
• spiced vinegar
• sugar-vinegar
• sweetened vinegar
• tarragon vinegar
• thieves' vinegar

• toilet vinegar
• vinegar beer
• vinegar Bible
• vinegar car
• vinegar eel, vinegar-eel
• vinegar essence
• vinegarette
• vinegarrette
• vinegar-field
• vinegar fly, vinegar-fly
• vinegarish
• vinegarist
• vinegar lamp
• vinegar mother
• vinegar pie
• vinegar plant, vinegar-plant

• vinegar-railing
• vinegar rice
• vinegar stick
• vinegar strokes
• vinegar syndrome
• vinegar tree, vinegar-tree
• vinegar valentine
• vinegar weed, vinegarweed
• vinegar worm
• vinegary
• vinegar-yard
• white vinegar
• wine vinegar
• wish one at vinegar
• wood vinegar

Related terms

Terms etymologically related to "vinegar"

• vinaigrette
• vinaigrous

• vinegaroon / vinegarroon

• vinagrous

Translations

condiment

• Abkhaz: абжьеи (abžej)
• Afrikaans: asyn (af)
• Alabama: finika
• Albanian: uthull (sq) f
• Amharic: መጻጻ (mäṣaṣa), ኮምጣጤ (komṭaṭṭe), ከል (käll)
• Arabic: خَلّ m (ḵall)

  Egyptian Arabic: خل m (ḵall)

• Aragonese: vinagre m
• Aramaic:

  Jewish: חָלָא m (ḥallā)

  Syriac: ܚܠܐ m (ḥallā)

• Armenian: քացախ (hy) (kʻacʻax)
• Aromanian: puscã f
• Assamese: সিৰিকা (xirika)
• Asturian: vinagre m or f
• Avar: къанцӏа (qxʼancʼa)
• Azerbaijani: sirkə (az)
• Bashkir: һеркә (herkə)
• Basque: ozpina
• Belarusian: во́цат m (vócat)
• Bengali: ভিনেগার (bhinegar), সির্কা (śirka)
• Bulgarian: о́цет (bg) m (ócet)
• Burmese: ရှလကာရည် (my) (hra.la.karany)
• Catalan: vinagre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 醋 (cou³)

  Mandarin: 醋 (zh) (cù)

  Min Nan: 醋 (zh-min-nan) (chho͘)

• Crimean Tatar: sirke
• Czech: ocet (cs)
• Dalmatian: acait
• Danish: eddike (da) c
• Dutch: azijn (nl) m
• Esperanto: vinagro
• Estonian: äädikas
• Faroese: edikur m
• Finnish: etikka (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: vinégro
• French: vinaigre (fr) m

  Middle French: vinaigre m

  Old French: vinaigre m

• Friulian: asêt m
• Galician: vinagre (gl) m
• Ge'ez: ብሒእ (bəḥiʾ), መፃፃ (mäṣ́aṣ́a), መጻጻ (mäṣaṣa), ከል (käll)
• Georgian: ძმარი (ʒmari)
• German: Essig (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍄 n (akeit)
• Greek: ξύδι (el) n (xýdi), ξυνό n (xynó), ξίδι (el) (xídi), ξείδι (xeídi)

  Ancient: ὄξος n (óxos)

• Greenlandic: seernartoq
• Gujarati: સરકો (sarko)
• Haitian Creole: vinèg
• Hausa: munegar
• Hebrew: חומץ \ חֹמֶץ (he) m (khómets)
• Hindi: सिरका (hi) m (sirkā)
• Hungarian: ecet (hu)
• Hunsrik: Essich m
• Icelandic: edik (is) n
• Ido: vinagro (io)
• Ilocano: suka
• Indonesian: cuka (id)
• Irish: fínéagar m

  Middle Irish: fínégra m

• Istriot: azì m
• Italian: aceto (it) m
• Japanese: 酢 (ja) (す, su)
• Kannada: ವಿನೆಗರ್ (vinegar)
• Kashubian: òct m
• Kazakh: сірке су (sırke su), сірке (sırke)
• Khmer: ទឹកខ្មេះ (tɨk khmeh)
• Korean: 식초 (ko) (sikcho)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

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• Kyrgyz: уксус (ky) (uksus), сирке (ky) (sirke)
• Lao: ນ້ຳສົ້ມ (nam som)
• Latin: acētum n
• Latvian: etiķis (lv)
• Lithuanian: actas (lt)
• Lombard: asée m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Etig m, Ätig m

• Luxembourgish: Esseg m
• Macedonian: оцет m (ocet)
• Malagasy: vinaigitra (mg)
• Malay: cuka
• Malayalam: വിനാഗിരി (vināgiri)
• Maltese: ħall m
• Maori: winika, winika
• Marathi: शिरका (śirkā), व्हिनेगर (vhinegar)
• Middle Persian: 𐭮𐭪 (sik)
• Mongolian: цуу (mn) (cuu)
• Neapolitan: acìto m
• Ngazidja Comorian: siki class 9/10
• Northern Sami: ettet
• Norwegian: eddik m
• Occitan: vinagre (oc) m
• Old English: æċed n
• Papiamentu: binager
• Persian: سرکه (fa) (serke)
• Polish: ocet (pl)
• Portuguese: vinagre (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸਿਰਕਾ (pa) (sirkā)
• Quechua: mama aqha
• Romanian: oțet (ro) n
• Romansch: ascheiu m, ischieu m, ischiu m, ischia m, aschaid m
• Russian: у́ксус (ru) m (úksus), (dated, biblical) о́цет (ru) m (ócet)
• Scottish Gaelic: fìon-geur m, binigear f, mionaigir f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: оцат m, кис m, сирће n

  Roman: ocat (sh) m, kis (sh) m, sirće (sh) n

• Sicilian: acitu (scn) m
• Sinhalese: විනාකිරි (winākiri)
• Slovak: ocot (sk) m
• Slovene: kis (sl) m
• Somali: khal m
• Spanish: vinagre (es) m
• Swahili: siki
• Swedish: vinäger (sv) c, ättika (sv) c
• Tagalog: suka (tl), binagre
• Tajik: сирко (sirko), уксус (tg) (uksus)
• Tamil: புளிங்காடி (ta) (puḷiṅkāṭi)
• Taos: biną̀gre’éne
• Tatar: серкә (tt) (serkä)
• Telugu: వెనిగర్ (venigar)
• Thai: น้ำส้มสายชู (th) (nám-sôm-sǎai-chuu), น้ำส้ม (th) (náam-sôm)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tigre: ከል (käll)
• Tigrinya: መጺጽ (mäṣiṣ)
• Tok Pisin: viniga
• Turkish: sirke (tr)
• Turkmen: sirke, uksus
• Ugaritic: 𐎈𐎎𐎕 m (ḥmṣ)
• Ukrainian: о́цет m (ócet)
• Urdu: سرکہ (sirka)
• Uyghur: سىركە (sirke)
• Uzbek: sirka (uz), uksus (uz)
• Venetian: axédo m, axedo (vec), axéo, axé, xéo
• Vietnamese: giấm (vi)
• Vilamovian: essig m
• Volapük: vinig (vo)
• Welsh: finegr (cy) m
• West Frisian: jittik
• Westrobothnian: ,
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: עסיק (esik)
• Yup'ik: uksuussaq
• Zhuang: meiq
• Zulu: viniga

See also

• non-brewed condiment

Verb

vinegar (third-person singular simple present vinegars, present participle vinegaring, simple past and past participle vinegared)

1. (transitive) To season or otherwise treat with vinegar.
   • Charles Dickens

     Accordingly, after a vast amount of moaning and crying up-stairs, and much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth […]

Derived terms

• vinegared
• vinegaring

Translations

to season with vinegar

• Finnish: maustaa etikalla
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• Macedonian: закиселува (zakiseluva)

Anagrams

• Ginevra, avering, ingrave, reaving, vaginer