cuisine

See also: cuisiné

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”), from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Doublet of kitchen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwɪˈziːn/, /kəˈziːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

cuisine (countable and uncountable, plural cuisines)

1. (countable, uncountable) A characteristic style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin.

   French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant styles of cooking.

   The restaurant is noted for its excellent cuisine.

   • 2024 June 6, Brooke Younger, “What Is Swicy, and Why Do You Need It in Your Life?”, in Cozymeal‎:

     For example, salsa and pico de gallo from Mexican cuisine sometimes include fruits like peach, mango or pineapple, balancing hot peppers like habanero or jalapeño with their sweetness. […] Cookbooks covering cuisines that feature swicy flavor profiles are a great place to start.

2. (uncountable) Synonym of culinary art: The art of preparing food, generally.
3. (countable, dated) A kitchen or cooking department.

Synonyms

• (characteristic style of preparing food): culinary art, kitchen

Derived terms

• batterie de cuisine
• chef de cuisine
• fusion cuisine
• haute cuisine
• modernist cuisine
• multicuisine
• new Nordic cuisine
• nouvelle cuisine
• spa cuisine
• subcuisine

Related terms

• curry

Translations

characteristic style of preparing food

Albanian: gjellëtari (sq) f Arabic: طَبْخ (ar) (ṭabḵ), طَبِيخ m (ṭabīḵ), مَطْبَخ m (maṭbaḵ) Armenian: խոհանոց (hy) (xohanocʻ) Azerbaijani: mətbəx (az) Bashkir: аш-һыу (aş-hıw) Basque: sukaldaritza (eu) Belarusian: ку́хня f (kúxnja) Bulgarian: ку́хня (bg) f (kúhnja) Catalan: cuina (ca) f Chinese: Hokkien: 料理 (zh-min-nan) (liāu-lí) Mandarin: 烹飪法 / 烹饪法 (zh) (pēngrènfǎ), (of specific cuisine) 餐 (zh) (cān), 料理 (zh) (liàolǐ) Czech: kuchyně (cs) f, kuchařství n Danish: køkken (da) n Dutch: keuken (nl) f or m Esperanto: kuirarto Estonian: köök (et) Finnish: keittiö (fi) French: cuisine (fr) f, art culinaire (fr) m Galician: cociña (gl) f Georgian: სამზარეულო (ka) (samzareulo) German: Küche (de) f, Kochkunst (de) f Greek: μαγειρική (el) f (mageirikí), κουζίνα (el) f (kouzína) Hebrew: מִטְבָּח (he) m (mitbákh) Hindi: पाकशैली f (pākśailī), पाक-प्रणाली f (pāk-praṇālī) Hungarian: konyhaművészet (hu), konyha (hu) Italian: cucina (it) f, culinaria (it) f Indonesian: kuliner, masakan (id), hidangan (id) Japanese: 料理 (ja) (りょうり, ryōri), 割烹 (ja) (かっぽう, kappō) Kapampangan: pamaglutu Kazakh: тамақ (kk) (tamaq), тағам (tağam) Korean: 요리(料理) (ko) (yori), 료리(料理) (ko) (ryori) (North Korea) Kyrgyz: ашкана (ky) (aşkana), тамак (ky) (tamak) Latvian: kulinārija f, virtuve f Lithuanian: virtuvė f Macedonian: кујна f (kujna) Malay: kuliner, masakan (ms) Mongolian: Cyrillic: гал тогоо (gal togoo) Norwegian: Bokmål: kjøkken (no) n Nynorsk: kjøken n, kjøkken n Persian: Iranian Persian: آشْپَزی (fa) (âšpazi) Polish: kuchnia (pl) f Portuguese: cozinha (pt) f, culinária (pt) f Russian: ку́хня (ru) f (kúxnja), кулинари́я (ru) f (kulinaríja) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ку̏хиња f Roman: kȕhinja (sh) f Slovak: kuchyňa (sk) f Slovene: kuhinja (sl) f Spanish: cocina (es) f, gastronomía (es) f Swedish: kök (sv) n, matkultur (sv) c, kokkonst (sv) c Tagalog: pagluluto, lutuin Tajik: матбах (matbax), таомҳо pl (taomho), таом (tg) (taom), ошхона (tg) (ošxona), ошпазӣ (ošpazi) Tatar: аш-су (tt) (aş-su) Thai: อาหาร (th) (aa-hǎan) (food) Turkish: mutfak (tr) Ukrainian: ку́хня (uk) f (kúxnja) Uzbek: oshxona (uz), taom (uz), oshpazlik (uz), pazandalik (uz) Vietnamese: ẩm thực (vi) (飲食)

culinary art — see culinary art

See also

• gastronomy

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French cuisine, from Old French cuisine, from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Doublet of keuken.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

cuisine f (uncountable)

1. cuisine; a characteristic style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin

   Synonym: keuken

Related terms

• haute cuisine

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French cuisine, from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Cognate with English kitchen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɥi.zin/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

cuisine f (plural cuisines)

1. kitchen

   Brian est dans la cuisine

   Brian is in the kitchen.

2. cuisine

   J’aime la cuisine française.

   I like French cooking.

Derived terms

• couteau de cuisine
• cuisine de rue
• cuisinier
• cuisinière
• fille de cuisine
• sel de cuisine
• tablier de cuisine

Related terms

• cuire
• cuisiner
• cuisson
• cuit

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: lakizin
• → English: cuisine
• → Malagasy: lakozy
• → Tamil: குசினி (kuciṉi)

Verb

cuisine

1. inflection of cuisiner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cuisine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.