culinary

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French culinaire, itself a borrowing from Latin culīnārius, from culīna (“kitchen”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlɪn(ə)ɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlɪˌnɛɹi/, /ˈk(j)ulɪˌnɛɹi/, /ˈkʊlɪˌnɛɹi/

Adjective

culinary (comparative more culinary, superlative most culinary)

1. Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.

   Her culinary skills were excellent.

2. Of or relating to a kitchen.

Synonyms

• (of or related to the act or art of cooking): cooking; coquinary (rare); culinarian (rare); magirological, magiristic, magiric (obsolete)

Derived terms

• culinarian
• culinarily
• culinary art
• culinary linguistics
• ethnoculinary
• medicoculinary
• nonculinary

 

Translations

relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking

• Afrikaans: culinaire
• Albanian: kulinar f
• Arabic: مَطْبَخِيّ (maṭbaḵiyy)
• Catalan: culinari
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烹飪／烹饪 (zh) (pēngrèn), 烹調／烹调 (zh) (pēngtiáo)

• Czech: kuchařský m, kulinářský m, kuchyňský (cs) m
• Danish: kulinarisk
• Dutch: culinair (nl)
• Finnish: kulinaarinen
• French: culinaire (fr) m or f
• German: kulinarisch (de)
• Greek: μαγειρικός (el) m (mageirikós), εδεσματολογικός m (edesmatologikós)

  Ancient Greek: μαγειρικός (mageirikós)

• Hebrew: קולינרי m (Kuli'nari)
• Hungarian: étkezési (hu)
• Icelandic: matreiðslu
• Indonesian: kuliner
• Italian: culinario (it) m
• Japanese: 料理の (ja) (りょうりの, ryōri-no)
• Khmer: ម្ហូប (km) (mboub)
• Korean: 부엌용의 (bueok-yong-ui)
• Latin: culīnārius
• Malay: kulinari
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kulinarisk

  Nynorsk: kulinarisk

• Polish: kulinarny (pl)
• Portuguese: culinário (pt)
• Russian: кулина́рный (ru) (kulinárnyj), (e.g. of cookbooks) пова́ренный (ru) (povárennyj)
• Spanish: culinario (es)
• Swedish: kulinarisk (sv)
• Tagalog: sa pagluluto, pagluluto
• Thai: สูทศาสตร์ (th) (sòot-sàat)
• Ukrainian: кухарський (kuxarsʹkyj), куховарський (kuxovarsʹkyj), куліна́рний (kulinárnyj)

See also

• cook
• kiln
• recipe

References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[1]

Further reading

• Wikipedia article on food.

Anagrams

• uranylic