lunch

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /lʌnt͡ʃ/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /lʌnʃ/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [lʌ̃nt͡ʃ]
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Recorded since 1580 in the sense “piece, hunk”. The word luncheon with the same meaning is presumably an extension on the pattern of puncheon (“cask”) and truncheon (“cudgel”). But earliest found forms of luncheon include lunshin and lunching, which are equivalent to lunch + -ing, with the suffix -ing possibly later modified to imitate a French origin. In contrast, the more common sense “light meal” is first attested for luncheon in 1652 and for lunch in 1829, so in this sense the latter is probably a shortening of the former. Lunch is possibly a derivative of lump (as hunch is from hump. See hunch for more), or represents an alteration of nuncheon, from Middle English nonechenche (“light midday meal”) (see nuncheon) and altered by northern English dialect lunch (“hunk of bread or cheese”) (1590), which perhaps is from lump or from Spanish lonja (“a slice”, literally “loin”).

292 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: middagete — meal around midday
• Albanian: drekë — meal around midday
• Albanian: sillë — meal around midday
• Arabic: غَدَاء (ḡadāʔ) — meal around midday
• Arabic: غدا (ḡada) — meal around midday
• Arabic: غدا (ḡada) — meal around midday
• Arabic: غدا (ḡada) — meal around midday
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܵܘܸܬܪܵܐ (kāwitrā) — meal around midday
• Armenian: լանչ (lančʻ) — meal around midday
• Armenian: ճաշ (čaš) — meal around midday
• Aromanian: prãndzu — meal around midday
• Asturian: comida — meal around midday
• Azerbaijani: günorta yeməyi — meal around midday
• Azerbaijani: nahar — meal around midday
• Baluchi: چاشت (cášt) — meal around midday
• Basque: bazkari — meal around midday
• Belarusian: абе́д (abjéd) — meal around midday
• Belarusian: ланч (lanč) — meal around midday
• Bengali: লাঞ্চ (lanco) — meal around midday
• Central Bikol: pangudto — meal around midday
• Breton: merenn — meal around midday
• Bulgarian: о́бед (óbed) — meal around midday
• Bulgarian: обя́д (objád) — meal around midday
• Bulgarian: лънч (lǎnč) — meal around midday
• Burmese: နေ့လယ်စာ (ne.laica) — meal around midday
• Catalan: dinar — meal around midday
• Cebuano: paniudto — meal around midday
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵎⵎⵏⵙⵓ (mmnsu) — meal around midday
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵉⵎⴽⵍⵉ (imkli) — meal around midday
• Chickasaw: tabookoli — meal around midday
• Chinese Cantonese: 晏晝 /晏昼 (aan3 zau3) — meal around midday
• Chinese Mandarin: 午飯 /午饭 (wǔfàn) — meal around midday
• Chinese Mandarin: 午餐 (wǔcān) — meal around midday
• Czech: oběd — meal around midday
• Danish: middagsmad — meal around midday
• Danish: frokost — meal around midday
• Dutch: lunch — meal around midday
• Dutch: middageten — meal around midday
• Esperanto: meztagmanĝaĵo — meal around midday
• Esperanto: tagmanĝo — meal around midday
• Esperanto: lunĉo — meal around midday
• Estonian: lõuna — meal around midday
• Faroese: døgurði — meal around midday
• Finnish: lounas — meal around midday
• French: déjeuner — meal around midday
• French: dîner (Cajun) — meal around midday
• French: lunch — meal around midday
• Friulian: gustà — meal around midday
• Gagauz: üülen imää — meal around midday
• Galician: xantar — meal around midday
• Georgian: ლანჩი (lanči) — meal around midday
• Georgian: მეორე საუზმე (meore sauzme) — meal around midday
• German: Mittagessen — meal around midday
• German: Lunch — meal around midday
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (undaurnimats) — meal around midday
• Greek: γεύμα (gévma) — meal around midday
• Greek: μεσημεριανό (mesimerianó) — meal around midday
• Ancient Greek: δεῖπνον (deîpnon) — meal around midday
• Ancient Greek: ἄριστον (áriston) — meal around midday
• Hawaiian: ʻaina awakea — meal around midday
• Hebrew: אֲרוּחַת צׇהֳרַיִם (arukhát tsohoráyim) — meal around midday
• Hindi: लंच (lañc) — meal around midday
• Hindi: दोपहर का खाना (dophar kā khānā) — meal around midday
• Hindi: नहार (nahār) — meal around midday
• Hungarian: ebéd — meal around midday
• Icelandic: hádegismatur — meal around midday
• Icelandic: hádegisverður — meal around midday
• Ido: dejuno — meal around midday
• Ido: dejuneto — meal around midday
• Indonesian: makan siang — meal around midday
• Ingrian: lounat — meal around midday
• Ingush: марта (marta) — meal around midday
• Interlingua: prandio — meal around midday
• Interlingua: lunch — meal around midday
• Inupiaq: aiḷiłiq — meal around midday
• Inupiaq: qitiqquutaq — meal around midday
• Irish: lón — meal around midday
• Italian: pranzo — meal around midday
• Italian: seconda colazione — meal around midday
• Japanese: 昼食 (chūshoku) — meal around midday
• Japanese: 昼ご飯 (hirugohan) — meal around midday
• Japanese: 昼飯 (hirumeshi) — meal around midday
• Japanese: 昼餉 (hiruge) — meal around midday
• Japanese: ランチ (ranchi) — meal around midday
• Kabuverdianu: almosu — meal around midday
• Kabuverdianu: almose — meal around midday
• Karakalpak: túslik — meal around midday
• Kazakh: қонақасы (qonaqasy) — meal around midday
• Kazakh: түскі ас (tüskı as) — meal around midday
• Kazakh: түскі тамақ (tüskı tamaq) — meal around midday
• Kazakh: түстік (tüstık) — meal around midday
• Kazakh: түскілік (tüskılık) — meal around midday
• Khmer: អាហារថ្ងៃត្រង់ (ʼaahaa thngay trɑng) — meal around midday
• Khmer: បាយថ្ងៃត្រង់ (baay thngay trɑng) — meal around midday
• Korean: 점심 (jeomsim) — meal around midday
• Korean: 점심(點心)밥 (jeomsimbap) — meal around midday
• Korean: 점심(點心) 식사 (jeomsim siksa) — meal around midday
• Korean: 중식 (jungsik) — meal around midday
• Korean: 오반 (oban) — meal around midday
• Korean: 주식 (jusik) — meal around midday
• Korean: 런치 (reonchi) — meal around midday
• Central Kurdish: نانی نیوەڕۆ (nanî nîwerro) — meal around midday
• Central Kurdish: فراوین (firawîn) — meal around midday
• Northern Kurdish: firavîn — meal around midday
• Kyrgyz: түштөм (tüştöm) — meal around midday
• Kyrgyz: обед (obed) — meal around midday
• Ladin: marënda — meal around midday
• Lao: ອາຫານທ່ຽງ (ʼā hān thīang) — meal around midday
• Latgalian: dīniškys — meal around midday
• Latin: prandium — meal around midday
• Latvian: pusdienas — meal around midday
• Lithuanian: pietūs — meal around midday
• Macedonian: ручек (ruček) — meal around midday
• Malay: makan tengahari — meal around midday
• Maltese: ikla — meal around midday
• Māori: tina — meal around midday
• Mazanderani: چاشت (cašt) — meal around midday
• Middle English: dyner — meal around midday
• Mirandese: almuorço — meal around midday
• Mòcheno: vormes — meal around midday
• Mongolian: ленч (lenč) — meal around midday
• Mongolian: хөнгөн зууш (xöngön zuuš) — meal around midday
• Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠩᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠭᠤᠰᠢ (könggen ǰaɣusi) — meal around midday
• Navajo: yistʼé — meal around midday
• Norman: dénaïr — meal around midday
• Norwegian Bokmål: lunsj — meal around midday
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lunsj — meal around midday
• Occitan: dinnar — meal around midday
• Church Slavic: обѣдъ (obědŭ) — meal around midday
• Old English: nōnmete — meal around midday
• Old English: undernmete — meal around midday
• Oromo: laaqana — meal around midday
• Pashto: غرمنۍ (ǧarmanǝ́y) — meal around midday
• Pennsylvania German: Essschtick — meal around midday
• Iranian Persian: ناهار (nâhâr) — meal around midday
• Plautdietsch: Meddach — meal around midday
• Polish: obiad — meal around midday
• Polish: lunch — meal around midday
• Portuguese: almoço — meal around midday
• Portuguese: grande-almoço — meal around midday
• Romanian: prânz — meal around midday
• Romanian: dejun — meal around midday
• Romanian: mare dejun — meal around midday
• Romansh: gentar — meal around midday
• Russian: обе́д (obéd) — meal around midday
• Russian: второ́й за́втрак (vtorój závtrak) — meal around midday
• Russian: ланч (lanč) — meal around midday
• Russian: ленч (lenč) — meal around midday
• Northern Sami: lunša — meal around midday
• Northern Sami: gaskabiebmu — meal around midday
• Sanskrit: मध्याह्नभोजन (madhyāhnabhojana) — meal around midday
• Sardinian: marèndha — meal around midday
• Sardinian: bústu — meal around midday
• Sardinian: pràgnu — meal around midday
• Scottish Gaelic: diathad — meal around midday
• Serbo-Croatian: ру́чак — meal around midday
• Serbo-Croatian: обед — meal around midday
• Serbo-Croatian: rúčak — meal around midday
• Serbo-Croatian: obed — meal around midday
• Sicilian: pranzu — meal around midday
• Sindhi: مانجھاندو (manjhando) — meal around midday
• Slovak: obed — meal around midday
• Slovene: kosilo — meal around midday
• Slovene: obed — meal around midday
• Slovene: južina — meal around midday
• Lower Sorbian: wobjed — meal around midday
• Upper Sorbian: wobjed — meal around midday
• Spanish: almuerzo — meal around midday
• Spanish: comida — meal around midday
• Spanish: yanta — meal around midday
• Spanish: lonche — meal around midday
• Spanish: lonch — meal around midday
• Spanish: lunch — meal around midday
• Swedish: lunch — meal around midday
• Tagalog: tanghalian — meal around midday
• Tajik: ноҳор (nohor) — meal around midday
• Tajik: хӯроки пешин (xürok-i pešin) — meal around midday
• Tajik: таоми пешин (taom-i pešin) — meal around midday
• Tarifit: amešri — meal around midday
• Thai: อาหารกลางวัน (aa-hǎan-glaang-wan) — meal around midday
• Thai: อาหารเที่ยง (aa-hǎan-tîiang) — meal around midday
• Thai: ข้าวเที่ยง (kâao-tîiang) — meal around midday
• Thai: มื้อเที่ยง (mʉ́ʉ-tîiang) — meal around midday
• Thai: มื้อกลางวัน (mʉ́ʉ-glaang-wan) — meal around midday
• Thai: ข้าวกลางวัน (kâao-glaang-wan) — meal around midday
• Thai: เพล (peen) — meal around midday
• Turkish: öğle yemeği — meal around midday
• Turkmen: günortanlyk — meal around midday
• Turkmen: günortanlyk nahar — meal around midday
• Ukrainian: обі́д (obíd) — meal around midday
• Ukrainian: ланч (lanč) — meal around midday
• Urdu: ظُہْرانَہ m لَنْچ (zuhrāna) — meal around midday
• Urdu: دوپَہَر کا کھانا (dopahar kā khānā) — meal around midday
• Uzbek: tushlik — meal around midday
• Uzbek: lench — meal around midday
• Uzbek: ikkinchi nonushta — meal around midday
• Uzbek: obed — meal around midday
• Venetan: disnar — meal around midday
• Vietnamese: bữa trưa — meal around midday
• Vietnamese: bữa ăn trưa — meal around midday
• Volapük: koled — meal around midday
• Walloon: dinner — meal around midday
• Walloon: marinde — meal around midday
• Welsh: cinio bach — meal around midday
• Wolaytta: laaxaa — meal around midday
• Yiddish: װאַרעמעס (varemes) — meal around midday
• Yiddish: לאָנטש (lontsh) — meal around midday
• Yiddish: מיטאָג (mitog) — meal around midday
• Bengali: মধ্যাহ্ন বিরতি (moddhanno biroti) — cricket break
• Albanian: drekoj — to eat lunch
• Albanian: silloj — to eat lunch
• Aromanian: prãndzu — to eat lunch
• Basque: bazkaldu — to eat lunch
• Belarusian: абе́даць (abjédacʹ) — to eat lunch
• Belarusian: паабе́даць (paabjédacʹ) — to eat lunch
• Breton: merennañ — to eat lunch
• Bulgarian: обя́двам (objádvam) — to eat lunch
• Catalan: dinar — to eat lunch
• Chickasaw: tabookoli impa — to eat lunch
• Chinese Cantonese: 食晏 (sik6 aan3) — to eat lunch
• Chinese Mandarin: 吃午飯 /吃午饭 (chī wǔfàn) — to eat lunch
• Czech: obědvat — to eat lunch
• Dalmatian: disnur — to eat lunch
• Danish: spise — to eat lunch
• Danish: spise frokost — to eat lunch
• Dutch: middageten — to eat lunch
• Dutch: lunchen — to eat lunch
• Estonian: lõunastama — to eat lunch
• Finnish: lounastaa — to eat lunch
• French: déjeuner — to eat lunch
• French: prendre déjeuner — to eat lunch
• French: luncher — to eat lunch
• Galician: xantar — to eat lunch
• German: zu Mittag essen — to eat lunch
• German: mittagessen — to eat lunch
• Greek: γευματίζω (gevmatízo) — to eat lunch
• Ancient Greek: δειπνέω (deipnéō) — to eat lunch
• Ancient Greek: ἀριστάω (aristáō) — to eat lunch
• Hungarian: ebédel — to eat lunch
• Icelandic: borða hádegismat — to eat lunch
• Ido: dejunar — to eat lunch
• Ingrian: lounattaissa — to eat lunch
• Interlingua: prander — to eat lunch
• Interlingua: lunchar — to eat lunch
• Irish: lón a ithe — to eat lunch
• Italian: pranzare — to eat lunch
• Japanese: 昼食をとる (chūshoku o toru) — to eat lunch
• Kabuverdianu: almusa — to eat lunch
• Kabuverdianu: almusá — to eat lunch
• Korean: 점심(點心)을 먹다 (jeomsim-eul meokda) — to eat lunch
• Korean: 점심(點心)밥을 먹다 (jeomsimbab-eul meokda) — to eat lunch
• Korean: 점심 식사(點心食事)를 하다 (jeomsim siksa-reul hada) — to eat lunch
• Korean: 점심(點心)을 드시다 (jeomsim-eul deusida) — to eat lunch
• Korean: 점심(點心)을 잡수시다 (jeomsim-eul japsusida) — to eat lunch
• Korean: 점심(點心)밥을 잡수시다 (jeomsimbab-eul japsusida) — to eat lunch
• Korean: 점심 식사(點心食事)를 하시다 (jeomsim siksa-reul hasida) — to eat lunch
• Korean: 점심(點心)밥을 드시다 (jeomsimbab-eul deusida) — to eat lunch
• Korean: 점심 식사(點心食事)를 드시다 (jeomsim siksa-reul deusida) — to eat lunch
• Central Kurdish: نان خواردنی نیوەڕۆ (nan xwardnî nîwerro) — to eat lunch
• Latgalian: dīniškuot — to eat lunch
• Latin: prandeō — to eat lunch
• Latvian: pusdienot — to eat lunch
• Lithuanian: pietauti — to eat lunch
• Macedonian: ру́ча (rúča) — to eat lunch
• Māori: tina — to eat lunch
• Mirandese: almorçar — to eat lunch
• Mongolian: өдрийн хоол идэх (ödriin xool idex) — to eat lunch
• Mongolian: ᠡᠳᠦᠷ ᠦᠨ ᠬᠣᠭᠤᠯᠠ ᠢᠳᠡᠬᠦ (edür-ün qoɣula idekü) — to eat lunch
• Pannonian Rusyn: полудньовац (poludnʹovac) — to eat lunch
• Polish: jeść obiad — to eat lunch
• Portuguese: almoçar — to eat lunch
• Romanian: prânzi — to eat lunch
• Russian: обе́дать (obédatʹ) — to eat lunch
• Russian: пообе́дать (poobédatʹ) — to eat lunch
• Sardinian: bustàre — to eat lunch
• Sardinian: pràndhede — to eat lunch
• Sardinian: pràndhere — to eat lunch
• Slovak: obedovať — to eat lunch
• Lower Sorbian: wobjedowaś — to eat lunch
• Spanish: almorzar — to eat lunch
• Spanish: lonchear — to eat lunch
• Spanish: lonchar — to eat lunch
• Swedish: äta lunch — to eat lunch
• Swedish: luncha — to eat lunch
• Tagalog: tanghalian — to eat lunch
• Ukrainian: обі́дати (obídaty) — to eat lunch
• Ukrainian: пообі́дати (poobídaty) — to eat lunch
• Vietnamese: ăn trưa — to eat lunch
• Volapük: koledön — to eat lunch
• Walloon: dinner — to eat lunch
• Walloon: mareder — to eat lunch
• Walloon: nonner — to eat lunch