canapé
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Etymology
Borrowed from French canapé. Doublet of canopy and conopeum.
Pronunciation
Noun
canapé (plural canapés)
- An hors d’oeuvre, a bite-sized open-faced sandwich made of thin bread or toast topped with savory garnish.
- A piece of furniture similar to a couch or settee, an elegant sofa.
- 1908, Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis, New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, page 29:
- Oliver was sitting on the edge of the canapé, swinging one leg over the other; and he stopped abruptly and stared, and then sank back, laughing softly to himself.
Translations
a bite-sized slice open-faced sandwich
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elegant sofa
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Anagrams
Noun
canapé m (plural canapés)
Etymology
Borrowed from French canapé. Attested since the 18th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
canapé m (plural canapés, diminutive canapeetje n)
- canapé (food)
- canapé (furniture)
- 1966 [1951], Annie M.G. Schmidt, “Tante Trui en Tante Toosje [Aunt Trui and Aunt Toosje]”, in De spin Sebastiaan [Sebastian the Spider], Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers, page 57:
- 't Water steeg en bleef maar stijgen / en de hele kanapee / ging toen langzaam aan het drijven / en de tantes dreven mee.
- The water rose and kept rising / and the entire canapé / slowly went afloat / and the aunts floated along with it.
Alternative forms
- canap’
Etymology
From Old French conopé, conope (later altered in form and meaning based on Medieval Latin canāpēum, alteration of canōpēum (“mosquito net”)), itself from Latin cōnōpēum (“seat with a canopy”), from Ancient Greek κωνωπεῖον (kōnōpeîon), from κώνωψ (kṓnōps, “mosquito”). Cognate with English canopy.
Pronunciation
Noun
canapé m (plural canapés)
- sofa
- piece of bread covered with some savory (finger) food
- nibble (small bits of food, e.g. at a party)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Albanian: kanape
- → Alemannic German: Kanepe
- → Belarusian: кана́па (kanápa)
- → Catalan: canapè
- → Czech: kanape
- → Danish: kanapé, kanape, canapé, canape
- → English: canapé
- → Egyptian Arabic: كنبة (kanaba)
- → Finnish: kanapee
- → German: Kanapee, Canapé
- → Hungarian: kanapé
- → Greek: καναπές (kanapés)
- → Gulf Arabic: قنفة (qanafa)
- Haitian Creole: kanape
- → Hijazi Arabic: كنبة (kanaba)
- → Italian: canapè
- → Iraqi Arabic: قنفة (qanafa)
- → Japanese: カナッペ (kanappe)
- → Korean: 카나페 (kanape)
- → Northern Kurdish: qenepe
- → Lithuanian: kanapa
- → Macedonian: канабе (kanabe)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kanapé, kanape
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kanape
- → Ottoman Turkish: قاناپه (kanape)
- → Persian: کاناپه (kânâpe)
- → Polish: kanapa
- → Portuguese: canapé
- → Romanian: canapea
- → Russian: канапе́ (kanapé)
- → Spanish: canapé
- → Tagalog: kanape
- → Swedish: kanapé
- → Turkish: kanepe
- → Ukrainian: кана́па (kanápa)
- → Vilamovian: kanapē
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
- H. H. Mallinckrodt, Latijn Nederlands woordenboek (Aula n° 24), Utrecht-Antwerpen, Spectrum, 1959 [Latin - Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
Further reading
- “canapé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French canapé, from Old French conopé, conope (later altered in form and meaning based on Medieval Latin canāpēum, alteration of canōpēum (“mosquito net”)), itself from Latin cōnōpēum (“seat with a canopy”), from Ancient Greek κωνωπεῖον (kōnōpeîon), from κώνωψ (kṓnōps, “mosquito”).
Noun
canapé (first-person possessive canapéku, second-person possessive canapému, third-person possessive canapénya)
Further reading
- “canapé” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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