Standard Lemma guide

hamburger

noun · verb · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhæmˌbɜː.ɡə/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhæm.bə.ɡə/
  • General-American: /ˈhæmˌbɜɹ.ɡɚ/
  • General-American: /ˈhæm.bəɹ.ɡɚ/
  • /ˈhæmˌbʊɹ.ɡəɹ/ Dublin
  • /ˈhæmˌbʊɹ.ɡɐ/ Dublin
  • /ˈhæm.bəɹ.ɡəɹ/ Dublin
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -æmbɜː(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ)
  • rhymes with -æmbə(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ)
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhæmbɜːɡə/
  • General-American: /ˈhæmbɝɡɚ/
  • Midwestern-US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: HH AE1 M B ER0 G ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, usually also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: beefburger, liberty sandwich

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: burger

2

noun

Meaning 2

Ingridents used in this type of sandwich:

The patty used in such a sandwich.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hamburger patty

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Ingridents used in this type of sandwich:

Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, colloquial, countable, uncountable

Qualifier: somewhat crude

Examples

  • The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger.
  • I'm going to make you into hamburger if you do that again.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Ellipsis of hamburger button.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

Topics: computing, engineering, graphical-user-interface, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a short rectangle.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, informal, uncountable

Topics: education

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A person from Hamburg.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Hamburgian

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To badly injure or damage (a fleshy part of the body).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

beef that has been ground

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: ground beef

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: beef, boeuf

10

noun

Meaning 10

a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: beefburger, burger

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: sandwich

Narrower terms: cheeseburger

History

Etymology

Shortening of Hamburger sandwich, Hamburger steak, etc., the first element borrowed from German Hamburger (“native of Hamburg”), equivalent to Hamburg + -er.

From Hamburg + -er.

Across languages

Translations

187 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: hamburger — sandwich
  • Albanian: hamburger — sandwich
  • Amharic: ሀምበርገር (hämbärgär) — sandwich
  • Western Apache: itsį’ ik’aaní — sandwich
  • Arabic: هَامْبُرْغَر (hāmburḡar) — sandwich
  • Arabic: هَامْبُورْجَر (hāmbūrjar) — sandwich
  • Arabic: بُرْغَر (burḡar) — sandwich
  • Armenian: համբուրգեր (hamburger) — sandwich
  • Armenian: բուրգեր (burger) — sandwich
  • Asturian: hamburguesa — sandwich
  • Azerbaijani: qamburqer — sandwich
  • Azerbaijani: hamburqer — sandwich
  • Basque: hanburgesa — sandwich
  • Belarusian: га́мбургер (hámburhjer) — sandwich
  • Bengali: হ্যামবার্গার (hêmbargar) — sandwich
  • Bulgarian: ха́мбургер (hámburger) — sandwich
  • Burmese: ဟမ်ဘာဂါ (hambhaga) — sandwich
  • Catalan: hamburguesa — sandwich
  • Chinese Cantonese: 漢堡 /汉堡 (hon3 bou2) — sandwich
  • Chinese Cantonese: 漢堡包 /汉堡包 (hon3 bou2 baau1) — sandwich
  • Hakka Chinese: 漢堡 /汉堡 (hon-pó) — sandwich
  • Chinese: 漢堡 /汉堡 (hàn-pó) — sandwich
  • Chinese: 和肉敆 (hām-bah-kap) — sandwich
  • Chinese: 美國割包 /美国割包 (Bí-kok koah-pau) — sandwich
  • Chinese Mandarin: 漢堡 /汉堡 (hànbǎo) — sandwich
  • Chinese Mandarin: 漢堡包 /汉堡包 (hànbǎobāo) — sandwich
  • Czech: hamburger — sandwich
  • Danish: hamburger — sandwich
  • Dutch: hamburger — sandwich
  • Esperanto: hamburgero — sandwich
  • Estonian: hamburger — sandwich
  • Estonian: burger — sandwich
  • Estonian: burks — sandwich
  • Faroese: hamburgari — sandwich
  • Finnish: hampurilainen — sandwich
  • French: hamburger — sandwich
  • French: hambourgeois — sandwich
  • Galician: hamburguesa — sandwich
  • Galician: hambúrguer — sandwich
  • Georgian: ჰამბურგერი (hamburgeri) — sandwich
  • German: Hamburger — sandwich
  • Greek: χάμπουργκερ (chámpourgker) — sandwich
  • Greek: χάμπεργκερ (chámpergker) — sandwich
  • Hebrew: הַמְבּוּרְגֶּר (hamburger) — sandwich
  • Hindi: हैमबर्गर (haimbargar) — sandwich
  • Hungarian: hamburger — sandwich
  • Icelandic: hamborgari — sandwich
  • Ido: hamburgero — sandwich
  • Indonesian: hamburger — sandwich
  • Irish: burgar — sandwich
  • Italian: hamburger — sandwich
  • Italian: panino di svizzera — sandwich
  • Italian: amburghese — sandwich
  • Japanese: ハンバーガー (hanbāgā) — sandwich
  • Kazakh: гамбургер (gamburger) — sandwich
  • Khmer: ហាំប៊ឺហ្គឺ (hambɨɨgɨɨ) — sandwich
  • Korean: 햄버거 (haembeogeo) — sandwich
  • Korean: 고기겹빵 (gogigyeopppang) — sandwich
  • Northern Kurdish: hambûrger — sandwich
  • Northern Kurdish: bûrger — sandwich
  • Kyrgyz: гамбургер (gamburger) — sandwich
  • Lao: ແຮມເບີເກີ (hǣm bœ̄ kœ̄) — sandwich
  • Lao: ແຮນເບີຣ໌ເກີຣ໌ (hǣn bœ̄n kœ̄n) — sandwich
  • Latvian: hamburgers — sandwich
  • Limburgish: vet breudje — sandwich
  • Lithuanian: hamburgeris — sandwich
  • Lithuanian: mėsainis — sandwich
  • Macedonian: хамбургер (hamburger) — sandwich
  • Malay: hamburger — sandwich
  • Maltese: ħemberger — sandwich
  • Māori: pākī — sandwich
  • Māori: hamapaka — sandwich
  • Mongolian: ᠾᠠᠮᠪᠦ᠋ᠷᠭᠧᠷ (hambürgēr) — sandwich
  • Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠮᠪᠦ᠋ᠷᠭᠧᠷ (qambürgēr) — sandwich
  • Mongolian: гамбургер (gamburger) — sandwich
  • Mongolian: хамбургер (xamburger) — sandwich
  • Navajo: háambagii — sandwich
  • Nepali: ह्यामबर्गर (hyāmabargar) — sandwich
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hamburger — sandwich
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hamburgar — sandwich
  • Odia: ହ୍ୟାମବର୍ଗର (hyāmabargara) — sandwich
  • Pashto: همبرګر — sandwich
  • Iranian Persian: هَمْبِرْگِر (hamberger) — sandwich
  • Plautdietsch: Klops — sandwich
  • Polish: hamburger — sandwich
  • Portuguese: hamburger — sandwich
  • Portuguese: hambúrguer — sandwich
  • Portuguese: sandes de hambúrguer — sandwich
  • Romanian: hamburger — sandwich
  • Russian: га́мбургер (gámburger) — sandwich
  • Scottish Gaelic: borgaire — sandwich
  • Serbo-Croatian: ха̀мбургер — sandwich
  • Serbo-Croatian: hàmburger — sandwich
  • Slovak: hamburger — sandwich
  • Slovene: hamburger — sandwich
  • Spanish: hamburguesa — sandwich
  • Swedish: hamburgare — sandwich
  • Tajik: гамбургер (gamburger) — sandwich
  • Tatar: һамбургер (hamburger) — sandwich
  • Thai: แฮมเบอร์เกอร์ (hɛm-bəə-gə̂ə) — sandwich
  • Turkish: hamburger — sandwich
  • Turkmen: gamburger — sandwich
  • Ukrainian: га́мбургер (hámburher) — sandwich
  • Ukrainian: га́мбурґер (hámburger) — sandwich
  • Urdu: ہَیمْبَرْگَر (haimbargar) — sandwich
  • Uyghur: ھامبۇرگ (hamburg) — sandwich
  • Uyghur: ھامبۇرگ بولكىسى (hamburg bolkisi) — sandwich
  • Uzbek: gamburger — sandwich
  • Vietnamese: hăm-bơ-gơ — sandwich
  • Vietnamese: hem-bơ-gơ — sandwich
  • Welsh: byrger — sandwich
  • Welsh: byrgyr — sandwich
  • Yiddish: האַמבורגער (hamburger) — sandwich
  • Armenian: կոտլետ (kotlet) — patty
  • Belarusian: катле́та (katljéta) — patty
  • Bulgarian: котле́т (kotlét) — patty
  • Bulgarian: пле́скавица (pléskavica) — patty
  • Chinese Cantonese: 漢堡扒 /汉堡扒 — patty
  • Chinese Cantonese: 肉餅 /肉饼 (juk6 beng2) — patty
  • Chinese Mandarin: 漢堡排 /汉堡排 (hànbǎopái) — patty
  • Chinese Mandarin: 肉餅 /肉饼 (ròubǐng) — patty
  • Danish: hamburgerbøf — patty
  • Finnish: jauhelihapihvi — patty
  • French: hamburger — patty
  • Georgian: კატლეტი (ḳaṭleṭi) — patty
  • German: Hamburger — patty
  • Greek: μπιφτέκι (biftéki) — patty
  • Ancient Greek: ἰσίκιον (isíkion) — patty
  • Hindi: हैमबर्गर (haimbargar) — patty
  • Hindi: पैटी (paiṭī) — patty
  • Italian: hamburger — patty
  • Italian: svizzera — patty
  • Italian: svizzerina — patty
  • Italian: medaglione — patty
  • Italian: amburghese — patty
  • Japanese: ハンバーグ (hanbāgu) — patty
  • Korean: 햄버거 (haembeogeo) — patty
  • Latin: isicium — patty
  • Macedonian: плескавица (pleskavica) — patty
  • Navajo: atsįʼ yikʼání — patty
  • Nepali: ह्यामबर्गर (hyāmabargar) — patty
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hamburger — patty
  • Plautdietsch: Klops — patty
  • Polish: kotlet mielony — patty
  • Polish: hamburger — patty
  • Russian: котле́та (kotléta) — patty
  • Russian: га́мбургер (gámburger) — patty
  • Spanish: hamburguesa — patty
  • Spanish: whopper — patty
  • Turkish: hamburger köftesi — patty
  • Ukrainian: котле́та (kotléta) — patty
  • Uzbek: kotlet — patty
  • Welsh: eidionyn — patty
  • Asturian: hamburgués — A person from Hamburg
  • Asturian: hamburguesa — A person from Hamburg
  • Catalan: hamburguès — A person from Hamburg
  • Catalan: hamburguesa — A person from Hamburg
  • Catalan: hamburgués — A person from Hamburg
  • Chinese Mandarin: 漢堡人 /汉堡人 — A person from Hamburg
  • Czech: Hamburčan — A person from Hamburg
  • Dutch: Hamburger — A person from Hamburg
  • Dutch: Hamburgse — A person from Hamburg
  • Esperanto: hamburgano — A person from Hamburg
  • Estonian: hamburglane — A person from Hamburg
  • Finnish: hampurilainen — A person from Hamburg
  • French: Hambourgeois — A person from Hamburg
  • French: Hambourgeoise — A person from Hamburg
  • Georgian: ჰამბურგელი (hamburgeli) — A person from Hamburg
  • German: Hamburger — A person from Hamburg
  • German: Hamburgerin — A person from Hamburg
  • Hungarian: hamburgi — A person from Hamburg
  • Italian: amburghese — A person from Hamburg
  • Japanese: ハンブルク人 (hanburuku jin) — A person from Hamburg
  • Macedonian: хамбурговец (hamburgovec) — A person from Hamburg
  • Norwegian: hamburger — A person from Hamburg
  • Occitan: amborgés — A person from Hamburg
  • Polish: hamburczyk — A person from Hamburg
  • Portuguese: hamburguês — A person from Hamburg
  • Portuguese: hamburguesa — A person from Hamburg
  • Russian: гамбуржанин (gamburžanin) — A person from Hamburg
  • Russian: гамбуржец (gamburžec) — A person from Hamburg
  • Serbo-Croatian: хамбургжанин — A person from Hamburg
  • Serbo-Croatian: hamburgžanin — A person from Hamburg
  • Spanish: hamburgués — A person from Hamburg
  • Spanish: hamburguesa — A person from Hamburg
  • Swedish: hamburgerbo — A person from Hamburg
  • Turkish: Hamburglu — A person from Hamburg
Real reading context

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