vinegar

English

Etymology

From Middle English vynegre, from Old French vinaigre from Old French vyn egre, based on Latin vīnum (“wine”) + Latin ācer (“sour”). Displaced Old English æċed (survived in Middle English eced).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪnəɡə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪnəɡɚ/

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• Hyphenation: vin‧e‧gar
• Rhymes: -ɪnəɡə(ɹ)

Noun

vinegar (countable and uncountable, plural vinegars)

1. (uncountable) A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid.
2. (countable) Any variety of vinegar.

   a range of herb-flavoured vinegars

3. (informal, US) Vigor; vitality.
   • 1962, “The Legend of John Henry's Hammer”, performed by Johnny Cash:

     You full of vinegar now, but you 'bout through / We gonna get a steam drill to do your share of driving / Then what's all them muscles gonna do? Huh, John Henry? / Gonna take a little bit of vinegar out of you.

Derived terms

• age like vinegar
• apple cider vinegar
• aromatic vinegar
• balsamic vinegar
• cane vinegar
• champagne vinegar
• chili vinegar
• Chinese red vinegar
• Chinkiang vinegar
• Chinkiang vinegar
• cider vinegar
• coconut vinegar
• four thieves' vinegar
• four thieves' vinegar
• fruit vinegar
• full of piss and vinegar
• herb vinegar
• honey catches more flies than vinegar
• honey catches more flies than vinegar
• it is better to be preserved in vinegar than to rot in honey
• malt vinegar
• Marseilles vinegar
• Marseilles vinegar
• mother of vinegar
• piss and vinegar
• pith and vinegar
• pyroligneous vinegar
• quick vinegar
• radical vinegar
• raspberry vinegar
• rice vinegar
• rose vinegar
• salt and vinegar
• sherry vinegar
• spiced vinegar
• spirit vinegar
• spirit vinegar
• spit and vinegar
• sugar-vinegar
• sweetened vinegar
• tarragon vinegar
• thieves' vinegar
• toilet vinegar
• vinegar beer
• vinegar Bible
• vinegar car
• vinegar eel, vinegar-eel
• vinegar essence
• vinegarette
• vinegar-field
• vinegar fly, vinegar-fly
• vinegarish
• vinegarist
• vinegar lamp
• vinegar mother
• vinegar pie
• vinegar plant, vinegar-plant
• vinegar-railing
• vinegarrette
• vinegar rice
• vinegar stick
• vinegar stroke
• vinegar stroke
• vinegar strokes
• vinegar syndrome
• vinegar tree, vinegar-tree
• vinegar valentine
• vinegar weed, vinegarweed
• vinegar worm
• vinegary
• vinegar-yard
• white vinegar
• wine vinegar
• wish one at vinegar
• wood vinegar
• you attract more flies with honey than vinegar
• you attract more flies with honey than vinegar
• you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar
• you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar
• you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
• you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
• you catch more flies with honey than vinegar
• you catch more flies with honey than vinegar
• you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
• you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

 

Related terms

• vinagrous
• vinaigrette
• vinaigrous
• vinegaroon / vinegarroon

 

Descendants

Descendants

• → Japanese: ビネガー (binegā)
• → Welsh: finegr

Translations

condiment

• Abkhaz: абжьеи (abžej)
• Afrikaans: asyn (af)
• Aghwan: 𐕜𐔰𐔾𐔰𐔾𐔰𐕘 (ṭalalaġ)
• Alabama: finika
• Albanian: uthull (sq) f
• Amharic: መጻጻ ? (mäṣaṣa), ኮምጣጤ ? (komṭaṭṭe), ከል ? (käll)
• Antillean Creole: vinèg
• Arabic: خَلّ m (ḵall)

  Egyptian Arabic: خل m (ḵall)

• Aragonese: vinagre m
• Aramaic:

  Jewish: חָלָא m (ḥallā)

  Syriac: ܚܠܐ m (ḥallā)

• Armenian: քացախ (hy) (kʻacʻax)
• Aromanian: puscã f
• Assamese: সিৰিকা (xirika)
• Asturian: vinagre m or f
• Avar: къанцӏа (qxʼancʼa)
• Azerbaijani: sirkə (az)
• Bashkir: һеркә (herkə)
• Basque: ozpina
• Bats: ძმარ (ʒmar)
• Belarusian: во́цат m (vócat)
• Bengali: ভিনেগার (bn) (bhinegar), সির্কা (bn) (śirka)
• Breton: gwinegr (br) m
• Bulgarian: оце́т (bg) m (océt)
• Burmese: ရှလကာရည် (my) (hra.la.karany)
• Catalan: vinagre (ca) m
• Chechen: уксус (uksus)
• Cherokee: ᏧᎾᏦᏍᏘ (tsunatsosti)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 醋 (cou³)

  Hokkien: 醋 (zh-min-nan) (chho͘)

  Mandarin: 醋 (zh) (cù)

  Wu: 醋 (⁵tshu)

• Cornish: aysel m
• Crimean Tatar: sirke
• Czech: ocet (cs) m
• Dalmatian: acait ?
• Danish: eddike (da) c
• Dutch: azijn (nl) m
• Elfdalian: ätikk f
• Esperanto: vinagro
• Estonian: äädikas (et)
• Faroese: edikur m
• Finnish: etikka (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: vinégro ?
• French: vinaigre (fr) m

  Middle French: vinaigre m

  Old French: vinaigre m

• Friulian: asêt m
• Galician: vinagre (gl) m
• Ge'ez: ብሒእ ? (bəḥiʾ), መፃፃ ? (mäṣ́aṣ́a), መጻጻ ? (mäṣaṣa), ከል ? (käll)
• Georgian: ძმარი (ʒmari)
• German: Essig (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍄 n (akeit)
• Greek: ξίδι (el) (xídi)

  Ancient: ὄξος n (óxos), τάργανον n (tárganon)

• Greenlandic: seernartoq
• Gujarati: સરકો m (sarko)
• Haitian Creole: vinèg
• Hausa: munegar
• Hebrew: חומץ \ חֹמֶץ (he) m (khómets)
• Hiligaynon: langgaw
• Hindi: सिरका (hi) m (sirkā), चुक्र (hi) m (cukra)
• Hungarian: ecet (hu)
• Hunsrik: Essich m
• Icelandic: edik (is) n
• Ido: vinagro (io)
• Ilocano: suka
• Indonesian: cuka (id)
• Ingrian: uksus
• Irish: fínéagar m

  Middle Irish: fínégra m

• Istriot: azì m
• Italian: aceto (it) m
• Japanese: 酢 (ja) (す, su), ビネガー (binegā)
• Kannada: ವಿನೆಗರ್ (vinegar)
• Kashubian: òct m
• Kazakh: сірке су (sırke su), сірке (sırke)
• Khmer: ទឹកខ្មេះ (tɨk khmeh)
• Korean: 식초 (ko) (sikcho)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سرکھ (sirkih)

  Northern Kurdish: sirke (ku) ?

• Kyrgyz: уксус (ky) (uksus), сирке (ky) (sirke)
• Lao: ນ້ຳສົ້ມ (nam som)
• Latin: acētum n
• Latvian: etiķis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: actas (lt) m
• Lombard: asée m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Etig m, Ätig m

• Luxembourgish: Esseg m
• Macedonian: оцет (mk) m (ocet)
• Malagasy: vinaigitra
• Malay: cuka
• Malayalam: വിനാഗിരി (vināgiri)
• Maltese: ħall m
• Maori: winika, winika
• Marathi: शिरका ? (śirkā), व्हिनेगर ? (vhinegar)
• Middle Persian: 𐭮𐭪 (sk /⁠sik⁠/)
• Mòcheno: essa m
• Mon: ဍာ် သံ (daik sɔm)
• Mongolian: цуу (mn) (cuu)
• Nanai: чу (ču)
• Neapolitan: acìto m
• Ngazidja Comorian: siki class 9/10
• Northern Sami: ettet, edet
• Norwegian: eddik m
• Occitan: vinagre (oc) m
• Old Church Slavonic: оцьтъ m (ocĭtŭ)
• Old English: æċed n
• Old Galician-Portuguese: azedo m
• Old Prussian: ettiks m
• Old Tupi: kaûĩaîa, kaûĩaîasy
• Pannonian Rusyn: есенц m inan (esenc), оцет m inan (ocet)
• Papiamentu: binager
• Pashto: سرکه (ps) ?
• Persian: سرکه (fa) (serke)
• Plautdietsch: Ädikj m
• Polish: ocet (pl) m
• Portuguese: vinagre (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸਿਰਕਾ (pa) m (sirkā)
• Quechua: mama aqha
• Romanian: oțet (ro) n
• Romansch: ascheiu m, ischieu m, ischiu m, ischia m, aschaid m
• Russian: у́ксус (ru) m (úksus), (dated, biblical) о́цет (ru) m (ócet)
• Sanskrit: चुक्र (sa) m or n (cukra)
• Scottish Gaelic: fìon-geur m, binigear f, mionaigir f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀цат m, ки̑с m, сѝрће n

  Roman: òcat (sh) m, kȋs (sh) m, sìrće n

• Sicilian: acitu (scn) m
• Sinhalese: විනාකිරි ? (winākiri)
• Slovak: ocot (sk) m
• Slovene: kȋs (sl) m
• Somali: khal m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wósucha f

  Upper Sorbian: kisało n

• Spanish: vinagre (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: asin
• Swahili: siki class 9/10
• Swedish: vinäger (sv) c, ättika (sv) c
• Tabasaran: сирке (sirke)
• Tagalog: suka (tl), binagre
• Tajik: сирко (sirko), уксус (tg) (uksus)
• Tamil: புளிங்காடி (ta) (puḷiṅkāṭi)
• Taos: biną̀greʼéne
• Tatar: серкә (tt) (serkä)
• Telugu: వెనిగర్ (venigar)
• Thai: น้ำส้มสายชู (th) (nám-sôm-sǎai-chuu), น้ำส้ม (th) (náam-sôm)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tigre: ከል ? (käl)
• Tigrinya: መጺጽ ? (mäṣiṣ)
• Tok Pisin: viniga
• Turkish: sirke (tr)
• Turkmen: sirke, uksus
• Udi: окъо (oq̇o)
• Ugaritic: 𐎈𐎎𐎕 m (ḥmṣ)
• Ukrainian: о́цет (uk) m (ócet)
• Urdu: سرکہ m (sirka)
• Uyghur: ئاچچىقسۇ (achchiqsu)
• Uzbek: sirka (uz), uksus (uz)
• Venetian: axédo m, axedo (vec) m, axéo m, axé m, xéo m
• Vietnamese: giấm (vi)
• Vilamovian: essig m
• Volapük: vinig (vo)
• Welsh: finegr (cy) m
• West Frisian: jittik c
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: עסיק m (esik)
• Yup'ik: uksuussaq
• Zhuang: meiq
• Zulu: viniga ?

See also

• non-brewed condiment

Verb

vinegar (third-person singular simple present vinegars, present participle vinegaring, simple past and past participle vinegared)

1. (transitive) To season or otherwise treat with vinegar.
   • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 19.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

     Accordingly, after a vast amount of moaning and crying up-stairs, and much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth […]

Derived terms

• vinegared
• vinegaring

Translations

to season with vinegar

• Finnish: maustaa etikalla
• Macedonian: закиселува (zakiseluva)
• Pannonian Rusyn: есенцовац (esencovac), оцтовац (octovac)
• Spanish: vinagrar

Anagrams

• Ginevra, Ingrave, avering, ingrave, reaving, vaginer