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 (countable and uncountable, 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; nones (obsolete)

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from lunch

liquid lunch

little lunch

lunch break

playlunch

DescendantsEdit

Dutch: lunch
German: Lunch
Portuguese: lanche
Spanish: lonche
Swedish: lunch

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
Azerbaijani: günorta yeməyi
Baluchi: چاشت‎‎ (cášt)
Basque: bazkari (eu)
Belarusian: абе́д m (abjéd)
Bengali: লাঞ্চ (lañc)
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, tagmanĝo
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
Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (undaurnimats)
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:
Kurmanji: firavîn (ku) f

Sorani: نانی نیوه‌ڕۆ‎‎
Kyrgyz: түштөм (tüştöm), обед (obed)

Ladin: marënda f
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)
Mirandese: almuorço m
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)
Pennsylvania German: Essschtick n
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: ру́чак m, обед m

Roman: rúčak (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: almuerzo (es) m (Latin America), comida (es) f (Spain)
Swedish: lunch (sv) c, middag (sv)
Tagalog: tanghalian (tl)
Tajik: ноҳор (nohor), хӯроки пешин (xüroki pešin), таоми пешин (taomi pešin)
Thai: อาหารกลางวัน (aa-hǎan-glaang-wan), อาหารเที่ยง (aahăan tîang), ข้าวเที่ยง (kâao tîang), มื้อเที่ยง (méu tîang), มื้อกลางวัน (méu glaangwan), ข้าวกลางวัน (kâao glaangwan), เพล (peen) (ecclesiastical)
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
Yiddish: װאַרעמעס‎‎ n (váremes)

cricket break

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.
- Cole Porter
  Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today.
- 1909, Frank Sidgwick, Love and battles (page 291)
  The gentleman had left for London after lunch. Yes, alone; but he had lunched in the hotel with a lady.
(transitive) To treat to lunch.
- H. G. Wells
  We dined him, we lunched him, we were photographed in his company by flashlight.