Phrase guide

tomato sauce

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A thick sauce made from tomatoes for pasta etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle

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Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Tomato ketchup, used as a condiment.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, Brunei, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, New-Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, South-Africa, UK, uncountable, usually

Examples

  • 1980 January-May, Laurence Le Guay, Cruising World, page 98, I quickly learned that there is a hell of a difference between tomato sauce and ketchup and that there is an even greater difference when it comes to mayonnaise: real American or the pseudo Australian — and I had always believed this to be a French concoction.

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3

noun

Meaning 3

sauce made with a puree of tomatoes (or strained tomatoes) with savory vegetables and other seasonings; can be used on pasta

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: spaghetti sauce, pasta sauce

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: salcë domatesh — pasta sauce
  • Arabic: صَلْصَة طَمَاطِم (ṣalṣat ṭamāṭim) — pasta sauce
  • Armenian: տոմատի սոուս — pasta sauce
  • Azerbaijani: pomidor sousu — pasta sauce
  • Belarusian: тама́тны соўс (tamátny sows) — pasta sauce
  • Belarusian: тама́тавы соўс (tamátavy sows) — pasta sauce
  • Bengali: টমেটো সস (ṭomeṭō śoś) — pasta sauce
  • Bulgarian: дома́тен сос (domáten sos) — pasta sauce
  • Catalan: salsa de tomàquet — pasta sauce
  • Chinese Cantonese: 番茄醬 /番茄酱 — pasta sauce
  • Chinese Mandarin: 番茄醬 /番茄酱 (fānqiéjiàng) — pasta sauce
  • Chinese Mandarin: 番茄沙司 (fānqié shāsī) — pasta sauce
  • Wu Chinese: 番茄沙司 (1fe-ga-so-sy; 1fe-ga 1so-sy) — pasta sauce
  • Czech: rajská omáčka — pasta sauce
  • Danish: tomatsovs — pasta sauce
  • Dutch: tomatensaus — pasta sauce
  • Finnish: tomaattikastike — pasta sauce
  • French: sauce tomate — pasta sauce
  • Galician: salsa de tomate — pasta sauce
  • Georgian: ტომატის სოუსი (ṭomaṭis sousi) — pasta sauce
  • German: Tomatensauce — pasta sauce
  • German: Tomatensoße — pasta sauce
  • Hindi: टमाटर सॉस (ṭamāṭar sŏs) — pasta sauce
  • Hungarian: paradicsomszósz — pasta sauce
  • Icelandic: tómatsósa — pasta sauce
  • Ido: tomatosauco — pasta sauce
  • Interlingua: sauce de tomate — pasta sauce
  • Italian: salsa di pomodoro — pasta sauce
  • Japanese: トマトソース (tomato sōsu) — pasta sauce
  • Korean: 토마토 소스 — pasta sauce
  • Latvian: tomātu mērce — pasta sauce
  • Macedonian: до́матен сос (dómaten sos) — pasta sauce
  • Manx: soolagh traase — pasta sauce
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tomatsaus — pasta sauce
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tomatsaus — pasta sauce
  • Iranian Persian: سُسِ گُوْجِهفَرَنْگی (sos-e gowje-farangi) — pasta sauce
  • Polish: sos pomidorowy — pasta sauce
  • Portuguese: molho de tomate — pasta sauce
  • Romanian: sos de rosii — pasta sauce
  • Russian: тома́тный со́ус (tomátnyj sóus) — pasta sauce
  • Slovak: paradajková omáčka — pasta sauce
  • Slovene: paradižnikova omaka — pasta sauce
  • Spanish: salsa de tomate — pasta sauce
  • Spanish: salsa jitomatera — pasta sauce
  • Swedish: tomatsås — pasta sauce
  • Tajik: қайлаи помидор (qayla-yi pomidor) — pasta sauce
  • Turkish: domates salçası — pasta sauce
  • Ukrainian: тома́тний со́ус (tomátnyj sóus) — pasta sauce
  • Uzbek: pomidor sousi — pasta sauce
  • Uzbek: pomidor qaylasi — pasta sauce
  • Vietnamese: nước xốt cà chua — pasta sauce
  • Welsh: saws tomato — pasta sauce