delicacy

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From Middle English delicacie, from Middle English delicat, from Latin delicatus. Equivalent to delic(ate) + -acy.

102 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: изтънченост (iztǎnčenost) — quality of being delicate
• Bulgarian: деликатност (delikatnost) — quality of being delicate
• Catalan: delicadesa — quality of being delicate
• Danish: sarthed — quality of being delicate
• Danish: delikatesse — quality of being delicate
• Estonian: õrnus — quality of being delicate
• Finnish: herkullisuus — quality of being delicate
• French: délicatesse — quality of being delicate
• Galician: delicadeza — quality of being delicate
• German: Feinheit — quality of being delicate
• German: Zartheit — quality of being delicate
• German: Empfindlichkeit — quality of being delicate
• German: Zerbrechlichkeit — quality of being delicate
• Hindi: कोमलता (komaltā) — quality of being delicate
• Hindi: सौम्यता (saumyatā) — quality of being delicate
• Irish: íogaireacht — quality of being delicate
• Irish: leiceacht — quality of being delicate
• Italian: delicatezza — quality of being delicate
• Polish: delikatność — quality of being delicate
• Polish: finezja — quality of being delicate
• Polish: subtelność — quality of being delicate
• Portuguese: delicadeza — quality of being delicate
• Russian: делика́тность (delikátnostʹ) — quality of being delicate
• Russian: утончённость (utončónnostʹ) — quality of being delicate
• Serbo-Croatian: dȅlikātnōst — quality of being delicate
• Spanish: fineza — quality of being delicate
• Spanish: delicadeza — quality of being delicate
• Spanish: fragilidad — quality of being delicate
• Swedish: delikatess — quality of being delicate
• Ottoman Turkish: نازكلك (nâziklik) — quality of being delicate
• Bulgarian: лакомство (lakomstvo) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Bulgarian: деликатес (delikates) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Chinese Mandarin: 美味 (měiwèi) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Chinese Mandarin: 珍味 (zhēnwèi) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Chinese Mandarin: 美食 (měishí) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Chinese Mandarin: 珍饈 /珍馐 (zhēnxiū) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Chinese Mandarin: 佳餚 /佳肴 (jiāyáo) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Chinese Mandarin: 嘉殽 /嘉淆 (jiāyáo) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Chinese Mandarin: 佳肴 (jiāyáo) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Czech: lahůdka — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Czech: delikatesa — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Danish: delikatesse — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Danish: lækkerbisken — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Dutch: lekkernij — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Dutch: delicatesse — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Esperanto: frandaĵo — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Finnish: herkku — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• French: gourmandise — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• German: Delikatesse — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• German: Leckerbissen — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• German: Köstlichkeit — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Ancient Greek: ὄψον (ópson) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Hebrew: מַעֲדָן (ma'adan) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Hebrew: מַטְעָם (mat'ám) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Ingrian: herkku — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Italian: prelibatezza — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Italian: leccornia — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Italian: squisitezza — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Japanese: 珍味 (chinmi) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Japanese: 美味 (bimi) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Japanese: デリカシー (derikashī) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Kazakh: жеңсiк тағам (jeñsik tağam) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Kazakh: жеңсiк ас (jeñsik as) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Kyrgyz: чүйгүн (cüygün) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Latin: scītāmentum — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Latin: mattea — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Latvian: delikatese — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Luxembourgish: Delikatess — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Māori: horotai — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Norwegian Bokmål: delikatesse — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Norwegian Nynorsk: delikatesse — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Plautdietsch: Lakjabeskje — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Polish: delikates — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Polish: delicje — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Polish: przysmak — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Portuguese: iguaria — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Portuguese: guloseima — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Russian: деликате́с (delikatɛ́s) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Russian: ла́комство (lákomstvo) — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Serbo-Croatian: delikatèsa — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Serbo-Croatian: pòslastica — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Spanish: exquisitez — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Spanish: golosina — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Spanish: manjar — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Swedish: delikatess — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Vietnamese: mỹ vị — something appealing, especially a pleasing food
• Bulgarian: изтънченост (iztǎnčenost) — elegance of construction or appearance
• Finnish: hienostuneisuus — elegance of construction or appearance
• Portuguese: fineza — elegance of construction or appearance
• Russian: утончённость (utončónnostʹ) — elegance of construction or appearance
• Serbo-Croatian: dȅlikātnōst — elegance of construction or appearance
• Spanish: fineza — elegance of construction or appearance
• Bulgarian: изтънченост (iztǎnčenost) — refinement in taste
• Danish: skrøbelighed — refinement in taste
• Finnish: hienostuneisuus — refinement in taste
• German: Delikatesse — refinement in taste
• Portuguese: refinamento — refinement in taste
• Portuguese: fineza — refinement in taste
• Russian: утончённость (utončónnostʹ) — refinement in taste
• Russian: изы́сканность (izýskannostʹ) — refinement in taste
• Serbo-Croatian: dȅlikātnōst — refinement in taste
• Ottoman Turkish: نازكلك (nâziklik) — refinement in taste