fry

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bherǵ-der.? Latin frīgō Old French frirebor. Middle English fryen English fry Inherited from Middle English fryen, borrowed from Old French frire, from Latin frīgō. Cognate with Ancient Greek φρύγω (phrúgō, “to roast, bake”), Sanskrit भृज्जति (bhṛjjati, “to roast, grill, fry”). Replaced native Middle English hirsten, from Old English hierstan (“to fry”). Related to bhurji, bhujia (“fried Indian snacks”).

From Middle English frie (“spawn of fish, young or small fish, offspring, progeny, children”), probably from Old Norse frjó (“seed, semen”), from Proto-Germanic *fraiwą (“seed, semen, offspring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per-, *(s)prey- (“to strew, sow”). Cognate with Icelandic frjó (“pollen, seed”), Icelandic fræ (“seed”), Swedish frö (“seed, embryo, grain, germ”), Danish and Norwegian frø (“seed”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍅 (fraiw, “seed”). Likely merging with Old French froiz, froie (“spawn, spawning”), from froier, freier (“to spawn”), from Latin fricō (“to rub”). Compare friable.

Dialectal, of obscure origin. Perhaps related to or a corruption of frith (“a wood, forest", also "brushwood, wattle”), from Middle English fryth, frith (“forest, woodland, a fence of brush or wattle, hedge”).

229 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Breton: fritez — fried potato
• Bulgarian: пържени картофи (pǎrženi kartofi) — fried potato
• Finnish: ranskalaiset perunat — fried potato
• French: frite — fried potato
• Galician: pataca frita — fried potato
• Greek: τηγανητή πατάτα (tiganití patáta) — fried potato
• Italian: patata fritta — fried potato
• Italian: patatine fritte — fried potato
• Malayalam: വറ (vaṟa) — fried potato
• Mongolian: шарсан төмс (šarsan töms) — fried potato
• Polish: frytka — fried potato
• Portuguese: frita — fried potato
• Romanian: cartofi prăjiți — fried potato
• Romanian: cartofi pai — fried potato
• Spanish: papas fritas — fried potato
• Spanish: patatas fritas — fried potato
• Telugu: వేపుడు (vēpuḍu) — fried potato
• Turkish: kızartma — fried potato
• Breton: fritadenn — meal of fried sausages, bacon, etc
• Danish: stegemad — meal of fried sausages, bacon, etc
• Galician: fritura — meal of fried sausages, bacon, etc
• Galician: fritada — meal of fried sausages, bacon, etc
• Italian: fritto misto — meal of fried sausages, bacon, etc
• Turkish: kızartma — meal of fried sausages, bacon, etc
• Ahtna: tsabaey yiigeʼ — young fish
• Bulgarian: дребна рибка (drebna ribka) — young fish
• Catalan: aleví — young fish
• Czech: plůdek — young fish
• Czech: potěr — young fish
• Danish: yngel — young fish
• Danish: fiskeyngel — young fish
• Finnish: kalanpoikanen — young fish
• Finnish: pikkukala — young fish
• French: frai — young fish
• Georgian: ლიფსიტა (lipsiṭa) — young fish
• German: Fischbrut — young fish
• German: Setzling — young fish
• Greek: γόνος (gónos) — young fish
• Greek: ψαράκια (psarákia) — young fish
• Greenlandic: erniaq — young fish
• Irish: gealóg — young fish
• Italian: avannotto — young fish
• Japanese: 稚魚 (chigyo) — young fish
• Malay: anak ikan — young fish
• Māori: poto — young fish
• Middle English: frie — young fish
• Norwegian Bokmål: yngel — young fish
• Norwegian Nynorsk: yngel — young fish
• Polish: narybek — young fish
• Polish: zarybek — young fish
• Portuguese: alevino — young fish
• Romanian: peștișor — young fish
• Romanian: caracudă — young fish
• Russian: малёк (maljók) — young fish
• Scottish Gaelic: frith-iasg — young fish
• Spanish: alevín — young fish
• Swedish: yngel — young fish
• Swedish: fiskyngel — young fish
• Lower Tanana: ch'enaxdadla' — young fish
• Turkish: bebek balık — young fish
• Turkish: balıkçık — young fish
• Turkish: parpa (of the turbot) — young fish
• Albanian: skuq — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Arabic: قَلَى (qalā) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Armenian: տապակել (tapakel) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Aromanian: frigu — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Assamese: ভাজা (bhaza) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Assamese: ভজা (bhoza) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Azerbaijani: qızartmaq — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Azerbaijani: qovurmaq — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Bangi: kanga — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Basque: frijitu — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Belarusian: сма́жыць (smážycʹ) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Biatah Bidayuh: gureng — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Bulgarian: пържа (pǎrža) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Burmese: ကြော် (krau) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Catalan: fregir — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Tedim Chin: kang — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Chinese Cantonese: 煎 (zin1) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Chinese Cantonese: 炒 (caau2) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Chinese Mandarin: 煎 (jiān) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Chinese Mandarin: 炒 (chǎo) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Cornish: fria — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Czech: smažit — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Czech: usmažit — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Dalmatian: fregur — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Danish: stege — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Danish: brase — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Dongxiang: khuru — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Dutch: bakken — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Dutch: braden — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Esperanto: friti — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Estonian: praadima — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Finnish: käristää — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• French: faire frire — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Galician: frixir — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Galician: fritir — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Galician: estrelar — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• German: braten — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Greek: τηγανίζω (tiganízo) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Ancient Greek: τηγανίζω (tēganízō) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Ancient Greek: ταγηνίζω (tagēnízō) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Hebrew: טיגן \ טִגֵּן (tigén) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Hindi: तलना (talnā) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Hungarian: süt — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Irish: frioch — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Italian: friggere — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Japanese: (油で)揚げる (ageru) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Japanese: 炒る (iru) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Japanese: 煎る (iru) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Kazakh: қуыру (quyru) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Khmer: ជៀន (ciən) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Khmer: ឆា (chaa) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Korean: 튀기다 (twigida) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Central Kurdish: سوور کردنەوە (sûr kirdnewe) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Northern Kurdish: biraştin — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Northern Kurdish: qelandin — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Lao: ຂົ້ວ (khūa) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Lao: ຈຶນ (chưn) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Latgalian: cept — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Latin: frīgō — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Latvian: cept — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Lingala: kalinga — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Lithuanian: kepti — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Lutuv: kie — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Macedonian: пржи (prži) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Malay: goreng — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Malayalam: വറുക്കുക (vaṟukkuka) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Māori: parai — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Middle English: fryen — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Mongolian: шарах (šarax) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Mongolian: хуурах (xuurax) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Norman: fricachi — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Norman: fricachier — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Norwegian: steke — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Occitan: fregir — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Persian: ویجیدن — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Polish: smażyć — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Polish: usmażyć — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Portuguese: fritar — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Romanian: frige — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Romanian: prăji — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Russian: жа́рить (žáritʹ) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Russian: поджа́рить (podžáritʹ) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Sanskrit: भृज्जति (bhṛjjati) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Sardinian: fríere — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Scottish Gaelic: praidhig — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Serbo-Croatian: пр̏жити — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Serbo-Croatian: pȑžiti — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Shuswap: p’íxem — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Slovak: smažiť — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Lower Sorbian: pjac — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Upper Sorbian: pjec — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Upper Sorbian: wopjec — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Upper Sorbian: spjec — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Upper Sorbian: popjec — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Spanish: freír — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Swahili: kaanga — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Swedish: steka — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Sylheti: ꠜꠣꠎꠣ (báza) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Tamil: வறு (vaṟu) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Telugu: వేపు (vēpu) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Tetum: sona — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Thai: ทอด (tɔ̂ɔt) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Turkish: kızartmak — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Ukrainian: сма́жити (smážyty) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Ukrainian: підсма́жити (pidsmážyty) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Urdu: تلنا (talnā) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Venetan: frìxer — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Venetan: frìxar — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Venetan: frìzar — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Venetan: frìzer — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Venetan: frìxere — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Venetan: frìzare — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Vietnamese: chiên — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Vietnamese: rán — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Volapük: loetön — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Welsh: ffrio — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Yiddish: פּרעגלען (preglen) — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Zou: keng — to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
• Armenian: տապակվել (tapakvel) — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Bulgarian: пържа се (pǎrža se) — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Czech: smažit se — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Danish: stege — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Danish: dybstege — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Finnish: paistua — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Finnish: käristyä — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• French: frire — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• German: braten — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Greek: τηγανίζω (tiganízo) — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Hebrew: טוגן \ טֻגָּן (tugán) — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Hebrew: היטגן \ הִטַּגֵּן (hitagén) — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Italian: friggere — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Kazakh: қуырылу (quyrylu) — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Māori: parai — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Middle English: fryen — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Polish: smażyć się — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Portuguese: fritar — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Romanian: prăji — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Scottish Gaelic: praidhig — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Spanish: freírse — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Swedish: steka — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Tamil: வறு (vaṟu) — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Telugu: వేగు (vēgu) — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Turkish: kızarmak — (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
• Czech: smažit se — suffer because of too much heat
• Czech: péci se — suffer because of too much heat
• Danish: blive stegt — suffer because of too much heat
• Finnish: paistua — suffer because of too much heat
• Finnish: sulaa — suffer because of too much heat
• French: griller — suffer because of too much heat
• Galician: asarse — suffer because of too much heat
• German: kochen — suffer because of too much heat
• Greek: ψήνομαι (psínomai) — suffer because of too much heat
• Italian: friggere — suffer because of too much heat
• Kazakh: күйіп-жану (küiıp-janu) — suffer because of too much heat
• Polish: smażyć się — suffer because of too much heat
• Polish: prażyć się — suffer because of too much heat
• Portuguese: assar — suffer because of too much heat
• Romanian: prăji — suffer because of too much heat
• Spanish: asarse — suffer because of too much heat
• Swedish: steka — suffer because of too much heat
• Turkish: kızarmak — suffer because of too much heat
• Turkish: yanmak — suffer because of too much heat
• Finnish: käristyä — informal: be executed by the electric chair
• German: grillen — informal: be executed by the electric chair
• Italian: friggere — informal: be executed by the electric chair
• Spanish: freír — informal: be executed by the electric chair
• Turkish: kızarmak — informal: be executed by the electric chair