stir-fry

See also: stirfry and stir fry

English

Etymology

From stir +‎ fry. Coined by Buwei Yang Chao in 1945, in How to Cook and Eat in Chinese.

Verb

stir-fry (third-person singular simple present stir-fries, present participle stir-frying, simple past and past participle stir-fried)

1. (transitive) To fry quickly in hot oil whilst constantly stirring, especially in a wok or similar pan.

Translations

fry something quickly in hot oil

Afrikaans: roerbraai Arabic: please add this translation if you can Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: saltar (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 炒 (caau2) Mandarin: 炒 (zh) (chǎo) Czech: osmažit Dutch: roerbakken (nl) Finnish: wokata French: sauter (fr) German: (fry quickly at great heat) anbraten (de); (emphasizing the stirring) unter ständigem Rühren anbraten; (specialist also) pfannenrühren Hebrew: הקפיץ (he) (hikpíts) Hungarian: dobva-rázva süt Indonesian: gongseng (id), oseng Italian: rosolare (it), saltare (it) Japanese: 炒める (ja) (itameru) Khmer: ឆា (km) (cʰaa), ឆាឆុរ (cʰaa cʰol) Lao: please add this translation if you can Malay: goreng kilas Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norman: fricachi à la Chinnouaise Portuguese: refogar (pt) Russian: жа́рить в ма́сле (žáritʹ v másle) Spanish: sofreír (es), saltear (es) Swedish: woka (sv), snabbsteka, sautera (sv) Tagalog: gisa Thai: ผัด (th) (pàt) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Tày: xảo, bốm Vietnamese: xào (vi) Welsh: tro-ffrio Zhuang: cauj

Noun

Stir fry in a wok.

stir-fry (countable and uncountable, plural stir-fries or stir-frys)

1. Food cooked in this manner.

Translations

dish

Afrikaans: roerbraai Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: (fried with rice) 炒飯／炒饭 (zh) (chǎofàn), (fried with noodles) 炒麵／炒面 (zh) (chǎomiàn), 小炒 (xiǎochǎo) Czech: please add this translation if you can Dutch: roerbakschotel f, roerbak (nl) m Esperanto: kirlofritaĵo Estonian: vokk, vokiroog Finnish: wokki (fi) French: sauté (fr) m German: Pfannengericht n; (in compounds) -pfanne; (traditional dish with stir-fried strips of meat) Geschnetzeltes (de) n Hebrew: מֻקְפָּץ m (muqpátz) Hungarian: serpenyős zöldség Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: 炒め物 (ja) (itame-mono) Macanese: chau-cháu Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norman: fricachie Chinnouaise f Portuguese: refogado m Russian: жарко́е (ru) n (žarkóje) Spanish: sofrito (es) m, salteado (es) m Swedish: wok (sv) c Tagalog: ginisa Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Zhuang: please add this translation if you can