curry

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• kŭrʹē
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• Received-Pronunciation, US: /ˈkʌ.ɹi/ without the hurry–furry merger
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• /kɝ.i/ US, hurry–furry merger
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• Northern-England: /ˈkʊ.ɹi/
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• South-Asia: /ˈkari/
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• South-Asia: /-ɾi/ spelling pronunciation
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• rhymes with -ʌɹi
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• CMU ARPABET: K AH1 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: K ER1 IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As an Irish surname, from Ó Comhraidhe (“descendant of Comhraidhe”). Also Anglicized from Ó Corra, see Corr. * As a Scottish and northern English surname, variant of Currie. * As an Arabic surname, Americanized from Khouri, Khoury. Compare Cury.

1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”), from Middle French cuyre (“to cook”) (whence also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere. Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of Richard II of England.

From Middle English currayen, from Old French correer (“to prepare”), presumably from Vulgar Latin *conredare, from Latin com- (a form of con- (“with; together”)) + a verb derived from Proto-Germanic *raidaz. More at ready.

Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry.

Possibly derived from currier, a common 16th- to 18th-century form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Possibly influenced by scurry.

154 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: kerrie — dish
• Arabic: كاري (kārī) — dish
• Belarusian: ка́ры (káry) — dish
• Bengali: তরকারী (torkari) — dish
• Bengali: সালন (śalon) — dish
• Bulgarian: къ́ри (kǎ́ri) — dish
• Burmese: ဟင်း (hang:) — dish
• Catalan: curri — dish
• Chinese Cantonese: 咖喱 (gaa3 lei1) — dish
• Hakka Chinese: 咖哩 (kâ-lî) — dish
• Chinese: 咖喱 or 咖哩 (zh-min-nan) — dish
• Chinese Mandarin: 咖喱 (gālí, kālǐ) — dish
• Chinese Mandarin: 咖哩 (kālǐ) — dish
• Czech: kari — dish
• Czech: karí — dish
• Dutch: kerrieschotel — dish
• Dutch: curryschotel — dish
• Esperanto: kareaĵo — dish
• Finnish: curry — dish
• Finnish: currypata — dish
• French: curry — dish
• German: Curry — dish
• Greek: κάρυ (káry) — dish
• Gujarati: શાક (śāk) — dish
• Irish: curaí — dish
• Italian: curry — dish
• Japanese: カレー (karē) — dish
• Kannada: ಮೇಲೋಗರ (mēlōgara) — dish
• Khmer: ការី (kaarii) — dish
• Korean: 카레 (kare) — dish
• Korean: 커리 (keori) — dish
• Lithuanian: karis — dish
• Macedonian: кари (kari) — dish
• Malagasy: karia — dish
• Malay: kari — dish
• Brunei Malay: kari — dish
• Malayalam: കറി (kaṟi) — dish
• Māori: kari — dish
• Mauritian Creole: kari — dish
• Pashto: کاری (kâri) — dish
• Persian: خورش کاری (xoreš kâri) — dish
• Polish: curry — dish
• Portuguese: curry — dish
• Portuguese: caril — dish
• Romanian: curry — dish
• Russian: ка́рри (kárri) — dish
• Santali: ᱩᱛᱩ (utu) — dish
• Scottish Gaelic: coiridh — dish
• Serbo-Croatian: ка̏ри — dish
• Serbo-Croatian: kȁri — dish
• Slovene: kari — dish
• Spanish: curri — dish
• Swedish: curry — dish
• Tagalog: kari — dish
• Tamil: கறி (kaṟi) — dish
• Telugu: కూర (kūra) — dish
• Thai: แกงกะหรี่ (gɛɛng-gà-rìi) — dish
• Vietnamese: cà ri — dish
• Vietnamese: ca ri — dish
• Arabic: كَارِي (kārī) — sauce or relish
• Armenian: կարի (kari) — sauce or relish
• Armenian: կարրի (karri) — sauce or relish
• Assamese: আঞ্জা (añza) — sauce or relish
• Assamese: তৰকাৰী (torkari) — sauce or relish
• Belarusian: ка́ры (káry) — sauce or relish
• Bengali: কারি (kari) — sauce or relish
• Bulgarian: къ́ри (kǎ́ri) — sauce or relish
• Burmese: ငါးပိချက် (nga:pi.hkyak) — sauce or relish
• Catalan: curri — sauce or relish
• Chinese Cantonese: 咖喱 (gaa3 lei1) — sauce or relish
• Hakka Chinese: 咖哩 (kâ-lî) — sauce or relish
• Chinese: 咖喱 or 咖哩 (zh-min-nan) — sauce or relish
• Chinese Mandarin: 咖喱 (gālí, kālǐ) — sauce or relish
• Chinese Mandarin: 咖哩 (kālǐ) — sauce or relish
• Czech: kari — sauce or relish
• Dutch: kerrie — sauce or relish
• Dutch: curry — sauce or relish
• Esperanto: kareo — sauce or relish
• Finnish: currykastike — sauce or relish
• French: cari — sauce or relish
• German: Currysoße — sauce or relish
• German: Curry — sauce or relish
• Greek: κάρυ (káry) — sauce or relish
• Gujarati: રસો (raso) — sauce or relish
• Hebrew: קָארִי (kari) — sauce or relish
• Hindi: करी (karī) — sauce or relish
• Hindi: सालन (sālan) — sauce or relish
• Icelandic: karrí — sauce or relish
• Indonesian: kari — sauce or relish
• Irish: curaí — sauce or relish
• Irish: anlann curaí — sauce or relish
• Japanese: カレー (karē) — sauce or relish
• Khmer: ការី (kaarii) — sauce or relish
• Korean: 카레 (kare) — sauce or relish
• Korean: 커리 (keori) — sauce or relish
• Lao: ກະຫລີ່ (ka lī) — sauce or relish
• Lithuanian: karis — sauce or relish
• Macedonian: кари (kari) — sauce or relish
• Malagasy: karia — sauce or relish
• Malay: kari — sauce or relish
• Brunei Malay: kari — sauce or relish
• Maltese: kari — sauce or relish
• Marathi: कालवण (kālvaṇ) — sauce or relish
• Norwegian Bokmål: karri — sauce or relish
• Norwegian Nynorsk: karri — sauce or relish
• Pashto: کاری (kâri) — sauce or relish
• Polish: curry — sauce or relish
• Portuguese: caril — sauce or relish
• Russian: ка́рри (kárri) — sauce or relish
• Serbo-Croatian: ка̏ри — sauce or relish
• Serbo-Croatian: kȁri — sauce or relish
• Slovak: kari — sauce or relish
• Spanish: curry — sauce or relish
• Spanish: cari — sauce or relish
• Swedish: curry — sauce or relish
• Sylheti: ꠔꠞ꠆ꠇꠣꠞꠤ (torxari) — sauce or relish
• Tagalog: kari — sauce or relish
• Tamil: கறி (kaṟi) — sauce or relish
• Telugu: కూర (kūra) — sauce or relish
• Thai: กะหรี่ (gà-rìi) — sauce or relish
• Thai: แกง (gɛɛng) — sauce or relish
• Turkish: köri — sauce or relish
• Turkish: köri sosu — sauce or relish
• Ukrainian: ка́рі (kári) — sauce or relish
• Vietnamese: ca ri — sauce or relish
• Vietnamese: cà ri — sauce or relish
• Vietnamese: cà ry — sauce or relish
• Yiddish: קאַרי (kari) — sauce or relish
• Zyphe: hang — sauce or relish
• Esperanto: karei — to cook or season with curry
• Finnish: maustaa currylla — to cook or season with curry
• Albanian: kashais — to groom a horse
• Bulgarian: тимаря (timarja) — to groom a horse
• Catalan: estrijolar — to groom a horse
• Dutch: roskammen — to groom a horse
• Finnish: sukia — to groom a horse
• German: kardätschen — to groom a horse
• German: striegeln — to groom a horse
• Hungarian: csutakol — to groom a horse
• Irish: cíor — to groom a horse
• Italian: strigliare — to groom a horse
• Ottoman Turkish: قاشاغیلامق (kaşağılamak) — to groom a horse
• Bulgarian: щавя (štavja) — to dress leather
• Finnish: muokata — to dress leather
• German: nasszurichten — to dress leather
• Irish: leasaigh — to dress leather
• Chinese Mandarin: 鞭打 (biāndǎ) — to beat or thrash
• German: dreschen — to beat or thrash
• Russian: би́ть (bítʹ) — to beat or thrash
• Finnish: suorittaa Curry-muunnos — to perform currying upon
• German: schönfinkeln — to perform currying upon
• German: curryen — to perform currying upon
• Polish: rozwijać funkcję — to perform currying upon
• Polish: rozwinąć funkcję — to perform currying upon