name
Meaning 1
A surname from Italian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
carbonara
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˌkɑːbəˈnɑːɹə/
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US: /ˌkɑɹbəˈnɑɹə/
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US: /ˌkɑɹbəˈnæɹə/
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CMU ARPABET: K AA0 R B OW0 N AA1 R AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A thick Italian pasta sauce, made with guanciale, grated cheese, beaten egg yolks and pepper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A spaghetti dish made using such a sauce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A spaghetti dish made using a similar sauce made from a different type of cured pork than guanciale (such as bacon, pancetta, lardons, gammon or ham).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
sauce for pasta; contains eggs and bacon or ham and grated cheese
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: spaghetti sauce, pasta sauce
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Carbonara.
From the Italian carbonara, shortening of alla carbonara (literally “in the manner of charcoal burners”, or “in the manner of the Carbonari”), ultimately from carbone (“coal”).
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 培根蛋醬 /培根蛋酱 (péigēndànjiàng) — thick pasta sauce
- Finnish: carbonara — thick pasta sauce
- Finnish: miilunpolttajan kastike — thick pasta sauce
- French: carbonara — thick pasta sauce
- Italian: carbonara — thick pasta sauce
- Polish: carbonara — thick pasta sauce
- Portuguese: carbonara — thick pasta sauce
- Turkish: carbonara — thick pasta sauce
- Turkish: karbonara — thick pasta sauce
- Arabic: كَارْبُونَارَا (kārbunāra) — spaghetti dish
- Chinese Mandarin: 培根蛋麵 /培根蛋面 (péigēndànmiàn) — spaghetti dish
- Finnish: carbonara — spaghetti dish
- Finnish: miilunpolttajan spagetti — spaghetti dish
- French: carbonara — spaghetti dish
- Greek: καρμπονάρα (karmponára) — spaghetti dish
- Indonesian: karbonara — spaghetti dish
- Italian: spaghetti alla carbonara — spaghetti dish
- Italian: carbonara — spaghetti dish
- Japanese: カルボナーラ (karubonāra) — spaghetti dish
- Korean: 카르보나라 (kareubonara) — spaghetti dish
- Korean: 까르보나라 (kkareubonara) — spaghetti dish
- Russian: карбонара (karbonara) — spaghetti dish