lunch

See also: Lunch

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Recorded since 1580; presumably short for luncheon, but earliest found also as lunshin, lunching, equivalent to lunch +‎ -ing, with the suffix -ing later modified to simulate a French origin. Lunch is possibly a variant of lump (as hunch is for hump, etc.), or represents an alteration of nuncheon, from Middle English nonechenche ("light mid-day meal"; see nuncheon) and altered by northern English dialect lunch ‎(“hunk of bread or cheese”) (1590), which perhaps is from lump or from Spanish lonja ‎(“a slice”, literally “loin”).

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /lʌnt͡ʃ/
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Rhymes: -ʌnt͡ʃ

NounEdit

lunch ‎(plural lunches)

A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
  We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.
(cricket) A break in play between the first and second sessions.
(Minnesota, US) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery.‎

SynonymsEdit

(midday meal): luncheon

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

TranslationsEdit

meal around midday

Afrikaans: middagete
Albanian: drekë (sq) f, sillë (sq) f
Arabic: غَدَاء m ‎(ḡadāʾ)
Hijazi Arabic: غدا m ‎(ḡada)
Armenian: լանչ ‎(lančʿ), ճաշ (hy) ‎(čaš)
Aromanian: prãndzu
Asturian: comida (ast) f
Azeri: günorta yeməyi
Baluchi: چاشت ‎(cášt)
Basque: bazkari (eu)
Belarusian: абе́д m ‎(abjéd)
Bengali: লাঞ্চ ‎(lanc)
Breton: merenn (br) f
Bulgarian: обя́д (bg) m ‎(objád)
Burmese: နေ့လယ်စာ (my) ‎(ne.laica)
Catalan: dinar (ca) m
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵎⵎⵏⵙⵓ ‎(mmnsu), ⵉⵎⴽⵍⵉ ‎(imkli)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 晏晝, 晏昼 ‎(aan³ zau³)

Mandarin: 午飯 (zh), 午饭 (zh) ‎(wǔfàn), 午餐 (zh) ‎(wǔcān)
Czech: oběd (cs) m
Danish: frokost (da) c
Dutch: lunch (nl), middageten (nl) n, (licht) middagmaal n
Esperanto: meztagmanĝaĵo
Estonian: lõuna
Finnish: lounas (fi)
French: déjeuner (fr) m, dîner (fr) m (Belgium, Cajun, Swiss and Canadian French, in which "déjeuner" means "breakfast"), lunch (fr) m (more specific)
Friulian: gustà
Galician: xantar m
Georgian: ლანჩი ‎(lanči), მეორე საუზმე ‎(meore sauzme)
German: Mittagessen (de) n, Lunch (de) m
Greek: γεύμα (el) n ‎(gévma), μεσημεριανό (el) n ‎(mesimerianó)
Ancient: ἄριστον n ‎(áriston)
Hawaiian: ʻaina awakea
Hebrew: אֲרוּחַת צָהֳרַיִם / ארוחת צהריים (he) f ‎(arukhát' tsohoráyim)
Hindi: लंच (hi) m ‎(lañc), दोपहर का खाना m ‎(dophar kā khānā)
Hungarian: ebéd (hu)
Ido: dejuno (io), dejuneto (io)
Indonesian: makan siang (id)
Interlingua: prandio
Inupiak: aiḷiłiq, qitiqquutaq
Irish: lón m
Italian: pranzo (it) m, seconda colazione f
Japanese: 昼食 (ja) ‎(ちゅうしょく, chūshoku), 昼ご飯 (ja) ‎(ひるごはん, hirugohan), お昼 (ja) ‎(おひる, o-hiru), ランチ (ja) ‎(ranchi)
Kazakh: қонақасы ‎(qonaqası), түскі ас (kk) ‎(tüski as), түскі тамақ ‎(tüski tamaq), түстік ‎(tüstik)
Khmer: អាហារថ្ងៃត្រង់ ‎(aahaa tŋay trɑŋ)
Korean: 점심 (ko) ‎(jeomsim) (點心), 중식 (ko) ‎(jungsik) (中食 (ko))
Kurdish:
Sorani:

Kurmanji: firavîn (ku) f

Sorani: نانی نیوه‌ڕۆ

Kyrgyz: түштөм ‎(tüştöm), обед ‎(obed)
Lao: ອາຫານທ່ຽງ (lo) ‎('ā hān thīang)
Latgalian: pušdīnis
Latin: prandium n
Latvian: pusdienas m
Lithuanian: pietūs (lt) m
Macedonian: ру́чек m ‎(rúček)
Malay: makan tengahari
Maltese: ikla f
Maori: tina
Mazanderani: چاشت ‎(cašt)
Mongolian: ленч ‎(lenč), хөнгөн зууш ‎(höngön zuuš)
Navajo: yistʼéí
Norman: dénaïr m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lunsj (no) m

Nynorsk: lunsj (no) m
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: обѣдъ m ‎(obědŭ)
Persian: ناهار (fa) ‎(nâhâr)
Polish: obiad (pl) m
Portuguese: almoço (pt) m
Romanian: prânz (ro) n
Romansch: gentar m
Russian: обе́д (ru) m ‎(obéd), второ́й за́втрак (ru) m ‎(vtorój závtrak), ланч (ru) m ‎(lanč), ленч (ru) m ‎(lenč)
Scottish Gaelic: diathad f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ручак m, обед m

Roman: ručak (sh) m, obed m
Sindhi: مانجھاندو (sd) m ‎(manjhando)
Slovak: obed (sk) m
Slovene: kosilo (sl) n, obed m, južina f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: wobjed m
Spanish: (Latin America) almuerzo (es) m, (Spain) comida (es) f
Swedish: lunch (sv) c, middag (sv)
Tagalog: tanghalian (tl)
Tajik: ноҳор ‎(nohor), хӯроки пешин ‎(xüroki pešin), таоми пешин ‎(taomi pešin)
Thai: อาหารกลางวัน ‎(aahăan glaangwan), อาหารเที่ยง ‎(aahăan tîang), ข้าวเที่ยง ‎(kâao tîang), มื้อเที่ยง ‎(méu tîang), มื้อกลางวัน ‎(méu glaangwan), ข้าวกลางวัน ‎(kâao glaangwan)
Turkish: öğle yemeği (tr)
Turkmen: günortanlyk, günortanlyk nahar
Ukrainian: обі́д m ‎(obíd), ланч m ‎(lanč)
Urdu: لنچ m ‎(lanc), دوپہر کا کھانا m ‎(dophar kā khānā)
Uzbek: tushlik (uz), lench, ikkinchi nonushta, obed (uz)
Venetian: disnar (vec)
Vietnamese: bữa trưa, bữa ăn trưa
Volapük: koled (vo)
Walloon: dinner (wa) m, marinde (wa) f
Welsh: cinio bach m

cricket break

DescendantsEdit

Portuguese: lanche
Spanish: lonche
Swedish: lunch

VerbEdit

lunch ‎(third-person singular simple present lunches, present participle lunching, simple past and past participle lunched)

(intransitive) To eat lunch.
I like to lunch in Italian restaurants.
(transitive) To treat to lunch.
- H. G. Wells
  We dined him, we lunched him, we were photographed in his company by flashlight.