ketchup

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• /ˈkɛt͡ʃ.əp/
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• Northern-England: /ˈkɛt͡ʃ.ʊp/
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• homophone: catch-up (one pronunciation)
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• CMU ARPABET: K EH1 CH AH0 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Uncertain, but probably ultimately from Hokkien 膎汁 (kê-chiap, “fish sauce”) via Malay kecap ~ kicap “any dark clear sauce from soy, fish etc”, though the precise path is unclear – there are related words in various Chinese languages. Various other theories exist – see Ketchup: Etymology for extended discussion. First appeared in English in the late 17th century in reference to a Southeast Asian sauce encountered by British traders and sailors. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that it was commonly used in the 18th century to refer to a variety of similar sauces with varying ingredients—"anchovies, mushrooms, walnuts, and oysters being particularly popular"—but by the late 19th century the current tomato ketchup became the most popular form. Catsup (earlier catchup) is an alternative Anglicization, still in use in the U.S., though it is now somewhat rare.

95 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: keçap — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Arabic: عَصِير الْبَنْدُورَة (ʕaṣīr al-bandūra) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Arabic: كَتْشَب (katšab) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Arabic: كاتشب (katšab) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Arabic: كتشب (katšab, katšap) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Armenian: կետչուպ (ketčʻup) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Azerbaijani: ketçup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Azerbaijani: ketçap — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Belarusian: ке́тчуп (kjétčup) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Bengali: কেচাপ (kecap) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Bulgarian: ке́тчуп (kétčup) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Catalan: quètxup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Catalan: quetxup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Chickasaw: akankishniha' okchi' — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Chinese Cantonese: 茄汁 — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Chinese Mandarin: 番茄醬 /番茄酱 (fānqiéjiàng) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Chinese Mandarin: 茄汁 (qiézhī) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Czech: kečup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Danish: ketchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Dutch: ketchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Dutch: tomatenketchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Esperanto: keĉupo — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Estonian: ketšup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Finnish: ketsuppi — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• French: ketchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Galician: catchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Galician: ketchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Georgian: კეჩუპი (ḳečuṗi) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Georgian: კეტჩუპი (ḳeṭčuṗi) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• German: Ketchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Greek: κέτσαπ (kétsap) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Hebrew: מִתְבָּל (mitbal) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Hebrew: קֶטְשׁוֹפּ (ketshop) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Hindi: केचप (kecap) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Hungarian: ketchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Icelandic: tómatsósa — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Ido: kechupo — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Indonesian: saus tomat — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Irish: citseap — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Italian: ketchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Italian: salsa rubra — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Italian: tomato — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Japanese: ケチャップ (kechappu) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Kazakh: кетчуп (ketçup) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Khmer: ទឹកប៉េងប៉ោះ (tɨk peeng pɑh) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Korean: 케첩 (kecheop) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Kyrgyz: кетчуп (ketcup) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Latvian: kečups — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Lithuanian: kečupas — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Macedonian: ке́чап (kéčap) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Macedonian: до́матен сос (dómaten sos) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Malay: sos tomato — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Malay: saus tomat — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Maltese: sos aħmar — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Maltese: ketċap — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Marathi: केचप (kecap) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Marshallese: kōjjeb — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Navajo: chʼil łichxíʼí akʼédzidí — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Navajo: chʼil łichxíʼí bitooʼ akʼédzidígíí — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Navajo: achʼííʼ yázhí bikʼétłohí łichxíʼígíí — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Norwegian Bokmål: ketchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Norwegian Bokmål: ketsjup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ketchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ketsjup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Persian: کچاپ (kečâp) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Polish: keczup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Polish: ketchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Portuguese: ketchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Russian: ке́тчуп (kétčup) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Russian: тома́тный со́ус (tomátnyj sóus) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Serbo-Croatian: кѐчап — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Serbo-Croatian: kèčap — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Slovak: kečup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Slovene: kečap — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Lower Sorbian: ketšup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Spanish: kétchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Spanish: ketchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Spanish: képchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Spanish: salsa de tomate — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Swedish: ketchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Tagalog: ketsap — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Tajik: кетчуп (ketčup) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Thai: เค็ตชัป (két-chàp) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Tok Pisin: retsos — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Turkish: ketçap — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Ukrainian: ке́тчуп (kétčup) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Unami: kèchëp — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Urdu: کیچپ (kecap) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Uyghur: شوخلا قىيامى (shoxla qiyami) — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Uzbek: ketchup — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Vietnamese: nước xốt cà chua — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Vietnamese: tương cà — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Welsh: sos coch — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Welsh: cetsyp — tomato-vinegar based sauce
• Yiddish: קעטשאָפּ (ketshop) — tomato-vinegar based sauce