hamburger

See also: Hamburger

English

a hamburger patty

Etymology

Shortening of Hamburger sandwich, Hamburger steak, etc.; or, less likely, borrowed from German Hamburger (“native of Hamburg”), equivalent to Hamburg +‎ -er. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhæmˌbɜː.ɡə/, /ˈhæm.bə.ɡə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhæmˌbɝ.ɡɚ/, /ˈhæm.bɚ.ɡɚ/

Noun

hamburger (countable and uncountable, plural hamburgers)

1. A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, sometimes also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.
2. The patty used in such a sandwich.
3. (uncountable) Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.
4. (US, colloquial, somewhat vulgar) An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.

   The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger.

   I'm going to make you into hamburger if you do that again.

Synonyms

• (sandwich): beefburger
• (patty): hamburger patty

Hypernyms

• (sandwich): burger

Hyponyms

(sandwich, patty):

• slider
• quarter-pounder
• cheeseburger

Coordinate terms

(sandwich, patty):

• chicken burger
• fish burger
• lamb burger
• pork burger
• vegeburger
• soyburger

See also

• 🍔 (hamburger emoji)

Derived terms

• burger
• cheeseburger
• gardenburger
• hamburger button
• hamburger icon
• hamburger menu
• hamburgerology
• soyburger
• vegeburger

 

Descendants

• → Swahili: hambaga

Translations

sandwich

• Albanian: hamburger (sq) m
• Arabic: هَامْبُرْغَر‎ m (hamburḡar), هَامْبُرْغَر‎ m (hamburgar), هَامْبُورْجَر‎ m (hamburgar), هَامْبُورْجَر‎ m (hamburjar), بَرْغَر‎ m (bargar), بَرْغَر‎ m (barḡar)
• Armenian: համբուրգեր (hy) (hamburger)
• Asturian: hamburguesa f
• Azerbaijani: qamburqer, hamburqer
• Basque: hanburgesa
• Belarusian: га́мбургер m (hámburhjer)
• Bengali: হ্যামবার্গার (hjambargar)
• Bulgarian: ха́мбургер m (hámburger)
• Burmese: ဟမ်ဘာဂါ (hambhaga)
• Catalan: hamburguesa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 漢堡, 汉堡 (hon³ bou²), 漢堡包, 汉堡包 (hon³ bou² baau¹)

  Hakka: 漢堡, 汉堡 (hon-pó)

  Mandarin: 漢堡 (zh), 汉堡 (zh) (hànbǎo), 漢堡包 (zh), 汉堡包 (zh) (hànbǎobāo)

  Min Nan: 漢堡, 汉堡 (hàn-pó), 和肉敆 (hām-bah-kap), 美國割包, 美国割包 (Bí-kok koah-pau)

• Czech: hamburger (cs) m
• Danish: hamburger c
• Dutch: hamburger (nl) m
• Esperanto: hamburgero
• Estonian: hamburger (et), burger (et), burks (slang)
• Faroese: hamburgari m
• Finnish: hampurilainen (fi)
• French: hamburger (fr) m, hambourgeois (fr) m
• Georgian: ჰამბურგერი (hamburgeri)
• German: Hamburger (de) m
• Greek: χάμπουργκερ (el) n (chámpourgker), χάμπεργκερ (chámpergker)
• Hebrew: הַמְבּוּרְגֶּר‎ (he) m (hamburger)
• Hindi: हैमबर्गर m (haimbargar)
• Hungarian: hamburger (hu)
• Icelandic: hamborgari (is) m
• Ido: hamburgero
• Indonesian: hamburger (id)
• Irish: burgar m
• Italian: hamburger (it) m
• Japanese: ハンバーガー (ja) (hanbāgā)
• Kazakh: гамбургер (gambwrger)
• Khmer: ហាំប៊ឺហ្គឺ (hambɨɨgəɨ) (neologism)
• Korean: 햄버거 (ko) (haembeogeo), 고기겹빵 (ko) (gogigyeopppang)
• Kyrgyz: гамбургер (ky) (gamburger)

• Lao: ແຮມເບີເກີ (hǣm bœ̄ kœ̄)
• Latvian: hamburgers m
• Limburgish: vet breudje
• Lithuanian: hamburgeris m, mėsainis m
• Macedonian: ха́мбургер (mk) m (hámburger)
• Malay: hamburger
• Maltese: ħemberger f
• Maori: pākī, hamapaka
• Mongolian: гамбургер (mn) (gamburger)
• Navajo: háambagii
• Nepali: ह्यामबर्गर (hyāmabargara)
• Norwegian: karbonadesmørbrød n

  Bokmål: hamburger m

  Nynorsk: hamburgar m

• Persian: همبرگر‎ (fa) (hamberger)
• Polish: hamburger (pl) m
• Portuguese: hamburger (pt) m, hambúrguer (pt) m
• Romanian: hamburger (ro) m
• Russian: га́мбургер (ru) m (gámburger)
• Scottish Gaelic: borgaire m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хамбургер

  Roman: hamburger (sh),

• Slovak: hamburger (sk) m
• Slovene: hamburger m
• Spanish: hamburguesa (es) f
• Swedish: hamburgare (sv) c
• Tajik: гамбургер (gamburger)
• Thai: แฮมเบอร์เกอร์ (hɛm-bəə-gə̂ə)
• Turkish: hamburger (tr)
• Turkmen: gamburger
• Ukrainian: га́мбургер m (hámburher)
• Urdu: ہیمبرگر‎ m (haimbargar)
• Uyghur: ھامبۇرگ‎ (hamburg)
• Uzbek: gamburger (uz)
• Vietnamese: hăm-bơ-gơ (vi)
• Welsh: byrger
• Yiddish: האַמבורגער‎ m (hamburger)

patty

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 漢堡扒, 汉堡扒 (hon³ bou² paa^4-2)

  Mandarin: 漢堡排, 汉堡排 (hànbǎopái)

• Danish: hamburgerbøf c
• Finnish: jauhelihapihvi (fi)
• French: hamburger (fr) m
• German: Hamburger (de) m

• Italian: hamburger (it) m, svizzera (it) f
• Macedonian: плеска́вица f (pleskávica)
• Navajo: atsįʼ yikʼánígíí
• Nepali: ह्यामबर्गर (hyāmabargara)
• Norwegian: kjøttdeig (no) m
• Turkish: hamburger köftesi

ground beef

• Danish: hakkekød (da) n
• Dutch: rundergehakt (nl) n
• Estonian: hakkliha (et)
• Finnish: jauheliha (fi)
• German: Mett (de) n, Rindermett n
• Greek: κιμάς (el) m (kimás)

• Latin: minūtal n (any kind of meat)
• Macedonian: плеска́вица f (pleskávica)
• Maltese: pulpetta f
• Navajo: atsįʼ yikʼánígíí
• Norwegian: kvernet kjøtt n
• Portuguese: hambúrguer (pt) m

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Czech

Noun

hamburger m

1. hamburger (a hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef, in a sliced bun, sometimes also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both)

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	hamburger	hamburgery, hamburgru
genitive	hamburgeru, hamburgru	hamburgerů, hamburgrů
dative	hamburgeru, hamburgru	hamburgerům, hamburgrům
accusative	hamburger	hamburgery, hamburgry
vocative	hamburgere, hamburgre, hamburgře	hamburgery, hamburgry
locative	hamburgeru, hamburgru	hamburgerech, hamburgrech
instrumental	hamburgerem, hamburgrem	hamburgery, hamburgry

Synonyms

• hambáč

Further reading

• hamburger in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

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Dutch

Deze hamburger is lekker!
This hamburger is tasty!

Etymology

Borrowed from English hamburger.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ham‧bur‧ger

Noun

hamburger m (plural hamburgers, diminutive hamburgertje n)

1. hamburger

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Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) from English

Noun

hamburger (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. hamburger

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• burger
• burks

Derived terms

• burger

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French

Etymology

From English hamburger, from German Hamburger.

Pronunciation

• (France) ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.bœʁ.ɡœʁ/, /ɑ̃.buʁ.ɡɛʁ/

• audio (France, Paris)

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• audio (France, Normandy)

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• (Quebec) ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.bœʁ.ɡœʁ/

• Audio (Quebec, Montreal)

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• Audio

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• Rhymes: -œʁ
• Homophone: hamburgers

Noun

hamburger m (plural hamburgers)

1. hamburger

Synonyms

• hambourgeois

Further reading

• “hamburger” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amˈburɡer/

Noun

hamburger m (invariable)

1. hamburger

Synonyms

• svizzera

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Hamburger and English hamburger

Noun

hamburger m (definite singular hamburgeren, indefinite plural hamburgere, definite plural hamburgerne)

1. a Hamburger (person from Hamburg)
2. a hamburger (fast food)

See also

• hamburgar (Nynorsk)

References

• “hamburger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Polish

Noun

hamburger m anim

1. hamburger

Declension

declension of hamburger

	singular	plural
nominative	hamburger	hamburgery
genitive	hamburgera	hamburgerów
dative	hamburgerowi	hamburgerom
accusative	hamburgera	hamburgery
instrumental	hamburgerem	hamburgerami
locative	hamburgerze	hamburgerach
vocative	hamburgerze	hamburgery

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Portuguese

Etymology

From English hamburger

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɐ̃ˈburɡer/

Noun

hamburger m (plural hamburgeres)

1. hamburger

Synonyms

• hambúrguer

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Turkish

Etymology

From German Hamburger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hɑm.ˈbʊɾ.ɟeɾ]

Noun

hamburger

1. hamburger

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	hamburger
Definite accusative	hamburgeri
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hamburger	hamburgerler
Definite accusative	hamburgeri	hamburgerleri
Dative	hamburgere	hamburgerlere
Locative	hamburgerde	hamburgerlerde
Ablative	hamburgerden	hamburgerlerden
Genitive	hamburgerin	hamburgerlerin
Possessive forms Singular Plural 1st singular hamburgerim hamburgerlerim 2nd singular hamburgerin hamburgerlerin 3rd singular hamburgeri hamburgerleri 1st plural hamburgerimiz hamburgerlerimiz 2nd plural hamburgeriniz hamburgerleriniz 3rd plural hamburgerleri hamburgerleri