Phrase guide

tartare sauce

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A sauce made from mayonnaise and a chopped mixture of pickled gherkins, capers, olives and shallots; traditionally served with fish or other seafood.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

mayonnaise with chopped pickles and sometimes capers and shallots and parsley and hard-cooked egg; sauce for seafood especially fried fish

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: tartar sauce

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: sauce

History

Etymology

From French sauce tartare.

Across languages

Translations

21 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: сос тартар (sos tartar) — sauce served with fish
  • Catalan: salsa tàrtara — sauce served with fish
  • Chinese Cantonese: 打他汁 — sauce served with fish
  • Chinese Cantonese: 他他醬 /他他酱 (taa1 taa1 zoeng3) — sauce served with fish
  • Chinese Cantonese: 他他汁 — sauce served with fish
  • Chinese Mandarin: 塔塔醬 /塔塔酱 (tǎtǎjiàng) — sauce served with fish
  • Chinese Mandarin: 他他醬 /他他酱 (tātājiàng) — sauce served with fish
  • Chinese Mandarin: 他他汁 (tātāzhī) — sauce served with fish
  • Chinese Mandarin: 塔塔沙司 (tǎtǎ shāsī) — sauce served with fish
  • Czech: tatarská omáčka — sauce served with fish
  • Finnish: tartar-kastike — sauce served with fish
  • French: sauce tartare — sauce served with fish
  • Italian: salsa tartara — sauce served with fish
  • Japanese: タルタルソース (tarutaru sōsu) — sauce served with fish
  • Korean: 타르타르 소스 (tareutareu soseu) — sauce served with fish
  • Polish: sos tatarski — sauce served with fish
  • Portuguese: molho tártaro — sauce served with fish
  • Romanian: sos tartar — sauce served with fish
  • Russian: тата́рский со́ус (tatárskij sóus) — sauce served with fish
  • Spanish: salsa tártara — sauce served with fish
  • Swedish: tartarsås — sauce served with fish