noodle

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• Received-Pronunciation: [ˈnuː.dl̩]
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• Canada, General-American, Scotland: /ˈnu.dəl/
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• Canada, General-American, Scotland: [ˈnuː.dl̩]
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• Australian: [ˈnʉː.dl̩]
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• rhymes with -uːdəl
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• CMU ARPABET: N UW1 D AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Dutch noedel (“noodle”), or from its etymon German Nudel (“piece of pasta, noodle”); further etymology uncertain, probably a variant of Knödel (“dumpling”), from Middle High German knödel (“dumpling; small knot”), and then either: * from knode, knote (“knot”) (from Old High German knodo, knoto (“knot”), perhaps ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *knappō (“knob; boy”)) + -el (diminutive suffix); or * from Ladin menùdli (“small dough dumpling in soup”), probably from Latin minutulus (“very small, tiny”) (in the sense of food chopped into small pieces), a diminutive of minūtus (“diminished; having been diminished”), the perfect passive participle of minuō (“to make smaller, diminish, lessen, reduce”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“little, small”). Cognates * French nouille, noudle, nudeln * Swedish nudel

The origin of the noun is uncertain; it is possibly a variant of noddle (“the head”). The verb is derived from the noun.

The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly derived: * from noodle (“to hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume”) (Shetland) (see etymology 3); or * from German nudeln (“to make music or sing listlessly; to make music or sing at a low pitch or volume, or in an improvisatory manner”) (Leipzig), apparently from Nudel (“piece of pasta, noodle”) (see etymology 1) + -n (a variant of -en (suffix forming the infinitives of verbs)). The word was probably also influenced by doodle (“to draw or scribble aimlessly”, verb). The noun is probably derived from the verb, though the verb is first attested later. The noun was probably also influenced by doodle (“small mindless sketch”, noun).

Possibly either: * a blend of Shetland Scots nune (“to sing softly, croon, hum”) (from Danish nynne, Norwegian nuna, nynna (“to hum; to sing”), originally imitative) + English doodle (“to play the bagpipes”) (chiefly Scotland); or * from Norn (unattested), from Old Norse *grynta, from Proto-Germanic *grunnatjaną (“to grunt”), a frequentative of Proto-Germanic *grunnōną (“to grunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrun- (“to shout”) (and thus a doublet of grunt).

Uncertain; possibly: * from noodle (“to fool or trick (someone)”) (obsolete) (see etymology 2); or * from nodule (“rounded mass or irregular shape”).

Unknown; perhaps related to guddle (“to catch (fish) with the hands”).

162 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: jufkë — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Southern Altai: лапша (lapša) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Arabic: نُودَلْز (nūdalz) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Arabic: شَعْرِيَّة (šaʕriyya) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Armenian: արիշտա (arišta) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Armenian: լապշա (lapša) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Azerbaijani: əriştə — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Bashkir: туҡмас (tuqmas) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Belarusian: ло́кшына (lókšyna) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Bengali: নুডল (nuḍol) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Central Bikol: pansit — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Bulgarian: ю́фка (júfka) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Burmese: ခေါက်ဆွဲ (hkaukhcwai:) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Catalan: fideu — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Chinese Cantonese: 麵 /面 (min6) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Chinese Cantonese: 麵條 /面条 (min6 tiu4) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Chinese: фан (fan) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Chinese: мян (mian) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Gan Chinese: 麵 /面 (mien5) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Hakka Chinese: 麵 /面 (mien) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Chinese: 麵 /面 (zh-min-nan) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Chinese: 麵條 /面条 (mī-thâu) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Chinese: 大麵 /大面 (zh-min-nan) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Chinese Mandarin: 掛麵 /挂面 (guàmiàn) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Chinese Mandarin: 麵條 /面条 (miàntiáo) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Wu Chinese: 麵 /面 — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Wu Chinese: 麵條 /面条 (6mi-diau) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Xiang Chinese: 麵 /面 (mienn5) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Czech: nudle — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Danish: nudel — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Dongxiang: ghurun — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Dutch: noedel — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Dzongkha: རྒྱ་ཐུག — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Esperanto: nudelo — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Estonian: nuudel — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Finnish: nuudeli — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• French: nouille — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Galician: fideo — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Georgian: ატრია (aṭria) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• German: Nudel — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Greek: μανέστρα (manéstra) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Ancient Greek: κολλύρα (kollúra) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Hebrew: אִטְרִיָּה ('itriyá) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Hindi: नूडल (nūḍal) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Hindi: नूडल्स (nūḍals) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• White Hmong: fawm — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• White Hmong: mij — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Hungarian: nudli — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Hungarian: metélt — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Hungarian: tészta — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Hunsrik: Nutel — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Icelandic: núðla — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Ido: nudelo — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Indonesian: mi — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Indonesian: mie — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Irish: núdal — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Italian: fettuccina — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Italian: taglierino — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Italian: tagliatella — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Italian: tagliolino — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Italian: nudolino — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Italian: noodle — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Japanese: ヌードル (nūdoru) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Japanese: 麺 (men) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Japanese: 麺類 (menrui) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Javanese: bakmi — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Javanese: mi — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Kashubian: klósk — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Kazakh: кеспе (kespe) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Khmer: គុយទាវ (kuy tiəw) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Khmer: មី (mii) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Korean: 누들 (nudeul) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Korean: 국수 (guksu) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Korean: 면 (myeon) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Kyrgyz: кесме (kesme) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Lao: ເຝີ (fœ̄) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Lao: ຫມີ່ (mī) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Latin: collȳra — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Latvian: nūdeles — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Lisu: ꓟꓰꓽ ꓫꓲꓺ (mè ʃi̱) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Lithuanian: lakštiniai — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Luxembourgish: Nuddel — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Macedonian: тестенина (testenina) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Malay: mi — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Māori: kihu — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Marathi: नूडल (nūḍal) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Mongolian: гурил (guril) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Mongolian: гоймон (gojmon) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Mongolian: лавшаа (lavšaa) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Nogai: лакса (laksa) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Norwegian Bokmål: nudel — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nudel — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Nuosu: ꎭꃃ (sha mut) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Occitan: vermicèli — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Pashto: مکروني — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Persian: نودل (nudel) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Persian: اگرا (ogrâ) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Persian: رشته (rešte) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Persian: لخشک (laxšak) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Polish: kluski — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Polish: nudle — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Portuguese: miojo — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Portuguese: talharim — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Quechua: fidiyu — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Romanian: tăiței — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Russian: лапша́ (lapšá) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Russian: макаро́ны (makaróny) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Samoan: lialia — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Scottish Gaelic: nùdail — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Serbo-Croatian: ну́дле — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Serbo-Croatian: реза́нац — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Serbo-Croatian: núdle — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Serbo-Croatian: rezánac — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Slovak: rezanec — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Slovak: slíž — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Slovene: rezanec — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Slovene: testenina — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Spanish: fideo — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Spanish: tallarín — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Spanish: aletría — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Swedish: nudel — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Tagalog: luglog — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Tajik: макарон (makaron) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Tajik: туппа (tuppa) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Tajik: угро (ugro) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Tamil: நூலடை (nūlaṭai) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Tatar: кесә (kesä) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Thai: บะหมี่ (bà-mìi) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Thai: ก๋วยเตี๋ยว (gǔai-dtǐao) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Thai: หมี่ (mìi) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Tibetan: འཇམ་ཐུག — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Tibetan: ནས་རྗེན་ཚ་བ (nas rjen tsha ba) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Tibetan: ཕིང (phing) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Tibetan: ཐུག་པ་བག་ཐུག — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Turkish: erişte — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Turkish: şeriye — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Turkish: şehriye — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Turkmen: akmak — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Turkmen: tentek — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Ukrainian: лапша́ (lapšá) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Ukrainian: ло́кшина (lókšyna) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Urdu: نوڈل (nūḍal) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Uyghur: ئۈگرە (ügre) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Uzbek: ugra — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Vietnamese: bánh — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Vietnamese: bún — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Vietnamese: mì (egg noodle) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Vietnamese: mì dẹt — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Vietnamese: miến — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Vietnamese: mì mống — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Vietnamese: mì sợi — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Welsh: nwdl — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Yiddish: לאָקש (loksh) — string or flat strip of pasta or other dough
• Finnish: putkilo — object which is long and thin like a noodle
• Finnish: rimputtelu — improvised passage of music played on an instrument
• Finnish: laulaa möristen — to hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume
• Finnish: laulaa hiljaa — to hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume
• Finnish: rimputtaa — to play (a musical instrument or passage of music) or to sing (a passage of music) in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; to play (a series of ornamental notes) on an instrument
• Finnish: rimputella — to play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument
• Finnish: etsiä opaaleita — to search (mullock) for opals
• Finnish: löytää opaali — to obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock
• Finnish: puhdistaa opaali — to clear extraneous material from (an opal)