curry
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Etymology 1 edit
1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English[1][2]), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”),[2] from Middle French cuyre (“to cook”) (from which also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere, present active infinitive of coquō.
Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of Richard II of England.
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Noun edit
curry (countable and uncountable, plural curries)
- One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce
- Synonym: (rhyming slang) Ruby Murray
- A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavoured with curry powder
- Curry powder
- Synonym: curry powder
- (incel slang, derogatory) An Indian
- (piracy slang) someone who begs for invite for private trackers on /ptg/(private tracker general) of 4chan
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Descendants edit
- → Chinese: 咖哩
- → Czech: kari
- → Danish: karry
- → Icelandic: karrí
- → Dutch: kerrie
- → Irish: curaí
- → Japanese: カレー (karē)
- → Korean: 커리 (keori)
- → Scottish Gaelic: coiridh
- → Russian: ка́рри (kárri)
- → Slovak: karí
- → Swedish: kurry
- → Turkish: köri
- → Vietnamese: cà ri
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Verb edit
curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)
- (transitive) To cook or season with curry powder.
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English currayen, from Old French correer (“to prepare”), presumably from Vulgar Latin *conredare, from Latin com- (a form of con- (“with; together”)) + a verb derived from Proto-Germanic *raidaz. More at ready.
Verb edit
curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)
- (transitive) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
- 1610–1614, John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Valentinian”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:
- Your short horse is soon curried.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.
- (transitive) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
- (transitive) To beat, thrash; to drub.
- c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii:
- I have seen him curry a fellow's carcase handsomely.
- 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, canto I:
- […] By setting brother against brother / To claw and curry one another.
- (transitive, figurative) To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
- 2014 August 27, Stephanie Zacharek, “The Last of Robin Hood Wrestles with a Star's Underage Love”, in The Village Voice[2], archived from the original on 2014-09-03:
- A middle-aged woman waves and calls to her, as if she, like the hungry reporters, were currying the girl's favor: Florence Aadland (Sarandon, in a wily, multilayered performance), Beverly's mother, wears an expression of maternal concern, though her self-serving motives become increasingly clear.
Usage notes edit
The sense "to win or gain favour" is most frequently used in the phrases to curry favour (with) and to curry [someone's] favour.
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Etymology 3 edit
Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry.
Verb edit
curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)
- (transitive, computing) To perform currying upon.
- 2011, Zachary Kessin, Programming HTML5 Applications: Building Powerful Cross-Platform Environments in JavaScript, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 21:
- The easiest way to curry parameters is to create a function that takes a parameter block and returns a function that will call the original function with the presupplied parameters as defaults […] .
- 2015, Leonardo Borges, Clojure Reactive Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 194:
- Next, we curry the avg function to 3 arguments and put it into an option.
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Etymology 4 edit
Possibly derived from currier, a common 16th- to 18th-century form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Possibly influenced by scurry.
Verb edit
curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To scurry; to ride or run hastily
- (transitive, obsolete) To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
- 1608, George Chapman, The Conspiracie, and Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron, section 2.245:
- I am not hee that can ... by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles.
- 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
- All these shots shall curry or finish their ranges in times equal to each other.
- (transitive, obsolete) To hurry.
- 1676, Andrew Marvell, Mr. Smirke, section 34:
- A sermon is soon curryed over.
Etymology 5 edit
Noun edit
curry (plural curries)
Further reading edit
- curry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “curry”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
References edit
- ^ Hannah Glasse, Glasse’s Art of Cookery, 1747
Basque edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
curry inan
- curry powder
- curry dish
Declension edit
indefinite | singular | plural | |
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absolutive | curry | curry-a | curry-ak |
ergative | curry-k | curry-ak | curry-ek |
dative | curry-ri | curry-ari | curry-ei |
genitive | curry-ren | curry-aren | curry-en |
comitative | curry-rekin | curry-arekin | curry-ekin |
causative | curry-rengatik | curry-arengatik | curry-engatik |
benefactive | curry-rentzat | curry-arentzat | curry-entzat |
instrumental | curry-z | curry-az | curry-ez |
inessive | curry-tan | curry-an | curry-etan |
locative | curry-tako | curry-ko | curry-etako |
allative | curry-tara | curry-ra | curry-etara |
terminative | curry-taraino | curry-raino | curry-etaraino |
directive | curry-tarantz | curry-rantz | curry-etarantz |
destinative | curry-tarako | curry-rako | curry-etarako |
ablative | curry-tatik | curry-tik | curry-etatik |
partitive | curry-rik | — | — |
prolative | curry-tzat | — | — |
Further reading edit
- "curry" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
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Noun edit
curry m (plural curry's, diminutive curry'tje n)
- the spicy condiment curry powder
- Synonyms: kerrie, kerriepoeder
- a curry dish
- Synonym: kerrieschotel
- curry ketchup
- Synonym: curryketchup
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Finnish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English curry, itself from Tamil கறி (kaṟi).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
curry
- curry, curry powder (south Asian spice mix)
- curry (a dish made using this spice mixture)
Declension edit
Inflection of curry (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | curry | curryt | ||
genitive | curryn | curryjen | ||
partitive | currya | curryja | ||
illative | curryyn | curryihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | curry | curryt | ||
accusative | nom. | curry | curryt | |
gen. | curryn | |||
genitive | curryn | curryjen | ||
partitive | currya | curryja | ||
inessive | curryssa | curryissa | ||
elative | currysta | curryista | ||
illative | curryyn | curryihin | ||
adessive | currylla | curryilla | ||
ablative | currylta | curryilta | ||
allative | currylle | curryille | ||
essive | curryna | curryina | ||
translative | curryksi | curryiksi | ||
abessive | currytta | curryitta | ||
instructive | — | curryin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “curry”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed into Middle French from multiple sources including English curry, all ultimately derived from Tamil கறி (kaṟi).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
curry m (plural currys)
Further reading edit
- “curry”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English curry.
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Noun edit
curry m (invariable)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English curry, from Tamil கறி (kaṟi).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
curry n (indeclinable)
- curry (dish)
- curry powder
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Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
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curry m (uncountable)
- (Brazil) curry powder (mixture of spices used in Asian cooking)
- Synonym: caril
- (Brazil) curry (dish made with curry powder)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French curry, from English curry, from Tamil கறி (kaṟi).
Noun edit
curry m (uncountable)
- curry powder (mixture of spices)
- curry (dish)
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English curry.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
curry m (plural currys)
Usage notes edit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading edit
- “curry”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
curry c (uncountable)
Declension edit
Declension of curry | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | curry | curryn | — | — |
Genitive | currys | curryns | — | — |
Derived terms edit
- currypasta (“curry paste”)