Dish in Different Languages
Discover 'Dish' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Dish
Afrikaans skottel | ||
Albanian gjellë | ||
Amharic ምግብ | ||
Arabic طبق | ||
Armenian ուտեստ | ||
Assamese থালী | ||
Aymara palatu | ||
Azerbaijani yeməyi | ||
Bambara daga | ||
Basque plater | ||
Belarusian страва | ||
Bengali থালা | ||
Bhojpuri बरतन | ||
Bosnian jelo | ||
Bulgarian чиния | ||
Catalan plat | ||
Cebuano pinggan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 碟 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 碟 | ||
Corsican piattu | ||
Croatian jelo | ||
Czech jídlo | ||
Danish fad | ||
Dhivehi ޑިޝް | ||
Dogri प्लेट | ||
Dutch schotel | ||
English dish | ||
Esperanto plado | ||
Estonian nõu | ||
Ewe nuɖuɖu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) ulam | ||
Finnish astia | ||
French plat | ||
Frisian skûtel | ||
Galician prato | ||
Georgian კერძი | ||
German gericht | ||
Greek πιάτο | ||
Guarani ña'ẽmbe | ||
Gujarati વાનગી | ||
Haitian Creole plat | ||
Hausa tasa | ||
Hawaiian ipu | ||
Hebrew צַלַחַת | ||
Hindi थाली | ||
Hmong phaj | ||
Hungarian tál | ||
Icelandic fat | ||
Igbo nri | ||
Ilocano kanen | ||
Indonesian hidangan | ||
Irish mhias | ||
Italian piatto | ||
Japanese 皿 | ||
Javanese sajian | ||
Kannada ಭಕ್ಷ್ಯ | ||
Kazakh тағам | ||
Khmer ម្ហូប | ||
Kinyarwanda isahani | ||
Konkani पदार्थ | ||
Korean 요리 | ||
Krio pan | ||
Kurdish ferax | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) قاپ | ||
Kyrgyz тамак | ||
Lao ອາຫານ | ||
Latin catino | ||
Latvian trauks | ||
Lingala bilei | ||
Lithuanian patiekalas | ||
Luganda emmerere | ||
Luxembourgish plat | ||
Macedonian чинија | ||
Maithili थारी | ||
Malagasy sakafo | ||
Malay pinggan | ||
Malayalam വിഭവം | ||
Maltese dixx | ||
Maori rihi | ||
Marathi ताटली | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯍꯦꯟꯖꯥꯡ | ||
Mizo chawhmeh | ||
Mongolian таваг | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ပန်းကန် | ||
Nepali डिश | ||
Norwegian oppvask | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mbale | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଥାଳି | ||
Oromo gabatee | ||
Pashto ډش | ||
Persian ظرف | ||
Polish danie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) prato | ||
Punjabi ਕਟੋਰੇ | ||
Quechua pukullu | ||
Romanian farfurie | ||
Russian блюдо | ||
Samoan ipu | ||
Sanskrit व्यंजनं | ||
Scots Gaelic mhias | ||
Sepedi sebjana | ||
Serbian јело | ||
Sesotho sejana | ||
Shona dhishi | ||
Sindhi ٿانو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පිඟාන | ||
Slovak jedlo | ||
Slovenian jed | ||
Somali saxan | ||
Spanish plato | ||
Sundanese piring | ||
Swahili sahani | ||
Swedish maträtt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) ulam | ||
Tajik табақ | ||
Tamil சிறு தட்டு | ||
Tatar савыт | ||
Telugu డిష్ | ||
Thai จาน | ||
Tigrinya መብልዒ | ||
Tsonga ndyelo | ||
Turkish tabak | ||
Turkmen saçak | ||
Twi (Akan) aduane | ||
Ukrainian блюдо | ||
Urdu ڈش | ||
Uyghur تاماق | ||
Uzbek taom | ||
Vietnamese món ăn | ||
Welsh dysgl | ||
Xhosa isitya | ||
Yiddish שיסל | ||
Yoruba satelaiti | ||
Zulu isidlo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "skottel" likely derives from the Vulgar Latin "scutella" or the Middle Dutch "scutele," both of which refer to a dish or bowl. |
| Albanian | The word "gjellë" comes from the Albanian root "gjel-," meaning "to eat". |
| Amharic | "ምግብ" is also used in Amharic to refer to "food" in general or to a meal. |
| Arabic | In Levantine Arabic, "طبق" can also refer to a "course" in a meal or menu. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "yeməyi" in Azerbaijani can also refer to a meal or a serving of food. |
| Basque | The word "plater" is likely derived from the French word "plat" meaning "flat" or "shallow", or possibly from the Spanish word "plato" meaning "plate". |
| Belarusian | The word "страва" in Belarusian can also refer to a dish of food, a course in a meal, or a service rendered. |
| Bengali | The word "থালা" can also refer to a musical instrument in Bengali, similar to a cymbal. |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, "jelo" has a culinary meaning, but also refers to "a portion of food served at a meal" or "a meal" itself. |
| Bulgarian | The word "чиния" also means "plate" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word 'plat' not only means 'dish', but also 'map' or 'board', highlighting its role as a surface for displaying or serving various items. |
| Cebuano | The word "pinggan" can also refer to a gong, a plate-shaped musical instrument. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "碟" means "flying saucer" in colloquial speech. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The dish has the alternate meaning 'flying saucer', and in Cantonese, 'disc'. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "piattu" is etymologically related to the Italian word "piatto", but also carries the alternate meaning of a shallow, round vessel used for storing liquid. |
| Croatian | The word "jelo" was originally used to refer to the edible parts of cooked meat, which were cut into even pieces. |
| Czech | Czech "jídlo" may also refer to a meal. |
| Danish | The Danish word 'fad' is also an archaic term for 'father' or 'grandfather'. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "schotel" is related to Old English "scytel", meaning "flat plate" or "bowl." |
| Esperanto | Esperanto "plado" is derived from Italian "piatto" (plate) and also means "plate" but only in the sense of "a single serving of food." |
| Estonian | "Nõu" can also mean "advice" or "council" in Estonian. |
| Finnish | The word "astia" originally referred to wooden vessels but has come to denote any kind of container. |
| French | The French word "plat" can also refer to a musical score for a single instrument and to flat-bottomed boats with a single mast. |
| Frisian | The word 'skûtel' in Frisian may come from the Old English word 'scutel', meaning 'shallow earthenware dish'. |
| Galician | In Galician, "prato" can also refer to a traditional musical genre or a type of fabric used for making typical attire |
| Georgian | In addition to its culinary meaning, "კერძი" can also refer to an "episode" in a film or television show, or a "paragraph" in a larger text. |
| German | The word "Gericht" also has the meaning "court" in German, which is derived from its original meaning "place of judgment". |
| Greek | The Greek word "πιάτο" ultimately derives from the Latin word "patina", which referred to a shallow metal dish or plate. |
| Gujarati | "વાનગી" originated from the Sanskrit word "van" meaning "forest" or "plant" and "gi" meaning "to take", possibly referring to dishes made with forest greens. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "pla" in Haitian Creole can also refer to a large flat plate or a plate of food. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word 'tasa' can also refer to a small round calabash used for drinking or serving water. |
| Hawaiian | The word "ipu" in Hawaiian can also refer to a container or receptacle for various purposes, such as holding food, liquids, or other items. |
| Hebrew | צַלַחַת also means 'flying saucer' in Hebrew, possibly due to the influence of the 1950s UFO craze. |
| Hindi | The word 'थाली' also refers to a type of Indian percussion instrument similar to a gong, traditionally used in religious ceremonies and classical music performances. |
| Hmong | The Proto-Miao-Yao root of "phaj" means "bamboo tube or container". |
| Hungarian | The term “tál” is also frequently used in the names of Hungarian villages, cities and streets, as well as in surnames and given names. |
| Icelandic | The word "fat" in Icelandic can also refer to the fat on an animal or to a large amount of something. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "nri" also means "to eat" and is related to the Yoruba word "iri" meaning "to swallow". |
| Indonesian | Hidangan originates from the Javanese word 'dhahar' or 'dhaharan' meaning 'food'; 'i' is an affix meaning 'pertaining to'. |
| Irish | The word 'mhias' also means 'measure'. |
| Italian | The Italian word "piatto" derives from the Latin "plattus" meaning "flat" and can also refer to a musical cymbal or a thin metal sheet. |
| Japanese | "皿" (sara) also means "plate" or "platter" in English. |
| Javanese | "Sajian" in Javanese is a loanword from Sanskrit "sajjana" (good people) and also refers to a theatrical performance. |
| Kannada | The word “ಭಕ್ಷ್ಯ” is derived from the Sanskrit word “bhakṣya”, which means “food” or “edible substance”. |
| Kazakh | The word тағам also refers to "food" and is cognate to the Turkic word "ta'am" with similar meaning. |
| Khmer | The word "ម្ហូប" also refers to a meal or a set of dishes served together. |
| Korean | The word "요리" can also mean "food preparation" or "cooking" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | In Kurdish, "ferax" also means "fertility" or "abundance." |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "тамак" also means "food" or "meal" and is related to the Mongolian word "tamaq" with the same meaning. |
| Lao | The Lao word "ອາຫານ" can also refer to any type of food, not just a dish that is served on a plate. |
| Latin | In Latin, "catinus" can also refer to a type of Roman tableware made with silver or gold. |
| Latvian | The word "trauks" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰer- meaning "to hold" and is related to the words "door" and "threshold". |
| Lithuanian | The word "patiekalas" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*pet-/*pat-", meaning "to spread out". In some contexts, it can also refer to a meal or a course within a meal. |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "Plat" is derived from the Old French word "plat" meaning "flat" and can also refer to a flat surface or a piece of land. |
| Macedonian | The word "чинија" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "činiti", meaning "to make" or "to do." |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "sakafo" originates from the Arabic "saqaf" meaning "roof", suggesting that food was once stored on rooftops to keep it cool and dry. |
| Malay | In Sundanese, 'pinggan' refers to a traditional woven bamboo plate used for serving food. |
| Malayalam | The word വിഭവം in Malayalam can also refer to wealth, means, resource, or capability. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "dixx" also means "to break" or "to shatter" when used in the context of glass or ceramics. |
| Maori | The word rihi also refers to "food" and is related to the Hawaiian word "liki" which means "to eat". |
| Marathi | ताटली word also means "a small plate used to serve food" in Marathi. |
| Mongolian | The word тваг can also refer to one of the 256 possible arrangements of lines in the Mongolian divination practice of shagai. |
| Nepali | The word “dish” comes from Old French “disch” (a plate, bowl, or tray for food), likely from Late Latin “discus” (a flat or round plate). |
| Norwegian | 'Oppvask' derives from 'opp' (up) and 'vask' (wash), so originally meant 'washing up'. The word is also used figuratively, like in 'gjøre oppvask' (to settle a dispute). |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Nyanja word "mbale" comes from the Mambwe word "imbalye" meaning "a vessel for scooping water or grain." |
| Pashto | The word "ډش" in Pashto can also refer to a meal or a feast, and is cognate with the Persian word "دس" (das) meaning "table". |
| Persian | The Persian word "ظرف" ( ظرف ) has multiple meanings, including 'container', 'vessel', 'ability', and 'decency' |
| Polish | The word 'danie' derives from the verb 'dać' (to give) and signifies something given for nourishment. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "prato" can refer to a plate or a meal in both Portugal and Brazil and its origin comes from the Latin word "pratum", which means meadow or field |
| Punjabi | The word "ਕਟੋਰੇ" can also refer to a type of vessel used to offer prayers in Sikhism, or a wooden bowl used to eat food. |
| Romanian | Rom. "farfurie" is an example of a loan word from an Iranian language, possibly an ancient form of Farsi. |
| Russian | Блюдо derives from the Old Russian блюсти, meaning to watch, and initially referred to a dish used to serve food while dining. |
| Samoan | The word 'ipu' in Samoan can also mean 'pot,' 'vessel,' or 'container,' especially for food or liquids. |
| Scots Gaelic | In Scottish Gaelic, the word "mhias" can also refer to a trough, a bowl, a measure or a quantity. |
| Serbian | The word 'јело' can also refer to a Serbian folk dance or a meal in general. |
| Sesotho | The word 'sejana' (dish) is derived from the Bantu root '-jan-', which also means to build, create, or form. |
| Shona | The word 'dhishi' also means a traditional pot for cooking and serving liquids in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The word ”ٿانو“ (dish) can also mean a shield, a plate, or a board. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | පිඟාන (piḷgāṇaya) also means "a plate used to serve food or offerings; a shallow bowl". |
| Slovak | The word "jedlo" is also used to refer to the contents of a dish, such as the food itself or the ingredients used to make it. |
| Slovenian | The word "jed" in Slovenian also means "meal" or "course". |
| Somali | In certain dialects of Somali the word "saxan" can also describe an edible, unleavened flatbread typically eaten with curry and beans. |
| Spanish | In ancient Greek, "platus" means "flat," and in Spanish, "plato" retains this meaning in the sense of a flat cooking vessel or plate. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "piring" for "dish" derives from the Sanskrit word "piṇḍa" meaning "lump" or "ball". |
| Swahili | The word "sahani" in Swahili can also refer to a plate or bowl. |
| Swedish | 'Maträtt' means both food served on a plate or bowl, and the act of serving or preparing food. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "ulam" shares its root with the Malay word "ulam" meaning "vegetable". |
| Tajik | Тaбaқ originally meant “a flat piece of bread” in the Sogdian language. |
| Tamil | The word "dish" can also refer to a specific type of cookware in some contexts. |
| Telugu | The word "డిష్" also refers to the Telugu dish made of urad dal and green chilies, cooked in oil. |
| Thai | The Thai word "จาน" (jaan) can also refer to a round or flat surface, or to a satellite dish |
| Turkish | "Tabak" in Turkish also refers to a tray or a flat, circular piece of wood or metal used as a base for a glass or cup. |
| Ukrainian | The word "блюдо" can also refer to a theatrical scene, act, or performance. |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "ڈش" also means "to be defeated" or "to be ruined". |
| Uzbek | The word "taom" in Uzbek also refers to "food" and "cuisine". |
| Vietnamese | "Món ăn" literally translates as "door to the kitchen" in Vietnamese, highlighting its significance within the household. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "dysgl" can also mean "a lesson" or "instruction." |
| Xhosa | "Isitya" as a dish derives from its shape - a hole in the ground covered with stones, forming a bowl. |
| Yiddish | "שיסל" (pronounced "shissel") also means a prison sentence in Yiddish slang. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "satelaiti" can also refer to a "container for food". |
| Zulu | The word 'isidlo' can also refer to a ritual object associated with ancestral worship. |
| English | A dish is a culinary utensil used for cooking, serving, or preparing food, but it can also refer to the food itself or a particular style of cooking |