Contents
- 1 English
- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Pronunciation
- 1.3 Noun
- 1.3.1 Hyponyms
- 1.3.2 Derived terms
- 1.3.3 Translations
- 1.3.4 See also
- 1.4 References
- 1.5 Further reading
English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
A folk word, first attested in c. 1600s, apparently from a Norfolk dialect, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from some Low German word or from dialectal dump (“lump”) (first attested in the late 1800s), + -ling (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dumpling (plural dumplings)
- (cooking) A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough. [from 17th c.]
- By restriction, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.
- (endearing) A term of endearment.
My little dumpling.
- (mildly vulgar) A piece of excrement.
- 2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated
- Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.
- 2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated
Hyponyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:dumpling
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
food
- Afrikaans: kluitjie
- Albanian: brumçë(sq)
- Arabic: دَامْبْلِنْغm (dāmblinḡ)
- Armenian: խմորագնդիկ (xmoragndik)
- Azerbaijani: klyotek, mantı
- Bashkir: манты (mantı)
- Belarusian: пяльме́ньm (pjalʹmjénʹ)
- Bulgarian: кне́дла(bg)f (knédla)
- Burmese: ပေါက်စီ(my) (paukci) (Chinese baozi), ဖက်ထုပ်(my) (hpakhtup)
- Catalan: mandonguilla(ca)f, nyoqui(ca)m
- Chinese:
- Czech: knedlík(cs)m, haluškaf
- Danish: dumpling
- Dutch: knoedel(nl)m
- Esperanto: knedliko, pastobulo
- Estonian: klimp(et)
- Finnish: nyytti(fi) (wrapped), taikinanyytti (wrapped), myky(fi) (filling mixed in with dough)
- French: quenelle(fr)f, ravioli(fr)m
- Galician: bolo do potem
- Georgian: პელმენი (ṗelmeni) (Russian pelmeni)
- German: Knödel(de)m, Kloß(de)m, Klops(de)m
- Hindi: गुलगुला(hi) (gulgulā)
- Hungarian: galuska(hu), nokedli(hu), gombóc(hu)
- Hunsrik: Klosm
- Icelandic: bögglarmpl, deigboltarmpl
- Italian: gnocco(it)m
- Japanese: 餃子(ja) (ぎょうざ, gyōza), ギョーザ(ja) (gyōza)
- Kazakh: тұшпара (tūşpara), мәнті (mäntı)
- Korean: 만두(ko) (mandu), 교자(ko) (gyoja) (gyoza), 펠메니(ko) (pelmeni) (Russian pelmeni)
- Kyrgyz: манты(ky) (mantı), мантуу (mantuu), чүчбара(ky) (cücbara)
- Lao: ກ້ຽວ (kiāu)
- Latin: globulusm, offaf
- Latvian: ķiļķensm, klimpaf
- Lithuanian: kukulism, gružulism, kankolasm, apskritainism
- Luxembourgish: Kniddelf
- Macedonian: кне́длаf (knédla)
- Maori: motumotu
- Mongolian: банш(mn) (banš), бууз(mn) (buuz), ᠪᠠᠩᠰᠢ (baŋsi)
- Navajo: kʼíneeshbízhii
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: melbolle
- Persian: منتو (mantu), دامبلینگ (dâmpling)
- Polish: pieróg(pl)m
- Portuguese: bolinho(pt)m
- Russian: пельме́нь(ru)m (pelʹménʹ), клёцка(ru)f (kljócka) (no filling), галу́шка(ru)f (galúška) (no filling), манты́(ru)fpl (mantý), манту́(ru)f or n (mantú), маньто́у(ru)f or n (manʹtóu)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: knedľaf, haluškaf
- Slovene: cmok(sl)m
- Spanish: empanadilla(es)f, albóndiga(es)f, ñoqui(es)m
- Swedish: klimp(sv)c, knyte(sv)n, dumpling(sv)c, pirog(sv)c
- Tajik: тушбера (tušbera)
- Tatar: манты (mantı)
- Thai: เกี๊ยว(th) (gíao)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: mantı(tr)
- Tuvan: манчы (mançı)
- Ukrainian: варе́ник(uk)m (varényk), галу́шка(uk)f (halúška) (no filling), пирі́г(uk)m (pyríh) (Western Ukraine), ву́шкоn (vúško)
- Uyghur: جۇۋاۋا (juwawa), بەنشىر (benshir), بەنشىرە (benshire), مانتا (manta)
- Uzbek: chuchvara(uz), manti(uz)
- Vietnamese: mằn thắn(vi), vằn thắn(vi), hoành thánh(vi)
- Yiddish: קניידלn (kneydl)
term of endearment
See also[edit]
- canederlo, gnocchi
- dim sim
- dim sum
- empanada
- har gow
- pierogi
- varenyky
- pelmeni
- quenelle
- ravioli
- shaomai, shumai
- wonton
References[edit]
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
