omelette

See also: Omelette

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EnglishEdit

An omelette.

Alternative formsEdit

• omelet (chiefly US)

EtymologyEdit

From French omelette, from alemette, from alemelle ‎(“knife blade”), probably derived from la lemelle, from Latin lamella ‎(“thin plate”).

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒm.lɪt/

• Audio (UK)

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈɔm.lət/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɑm.lət/, /ˈɑm.lɪt/, /ˈɑ.mə.lət/

• Audio (CA)

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NounEdit

Wikipedia

omelette ‎(plural omelettes)

1. A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with cheese, chives or other foodstuffs

Derived termsEdit

• you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs

TranslationsEdit

dish made with beaten eggs

• Arabic: عُجَّة f ‎(ʿujja)
• Armenian: ձվածեղ (hy) ‎(jvaceł)
• Azeri: qayğanaq (az)
• Catalan: truita f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 奄列, 唵列 ‎(am¹ lit⁶)

  Mandarin: 煎蛋餅, 煎蛋饼 ‎(jiāndànbǐng), 煎蛋卷 (zh) ‎(jiāndànjuǎn), 攤雞蛋 (zh), 摊鸡蛋 (zh) ‎(tānjīdàn)

• Czech: omeleta f
• Danish: omelet c
• Dutch: omelet (nl) f
• Esperanto: omleto
• Estonian: omlett
• Finnish: munakas (fi), omeletti (fi)
• French: omelette (fr) f
• Georgian: ომლეტი ‎(omleṭi), ერბო-კვერცხი ‎(erbo-ḳvercxi)
• Galician: tortilla francesa f, tortilla f
• German: Omelett (de) n
• Greek: ομελέτα (el) ‎(omeléta)
• Hebrew: חביתה (he) f ‎(havita)
• Hungarian: omlett (hu), tojáslepény
• Ido: omleto (io)
• Indonesian: telur dadar
• Interlingua: omelette
• Irish: uibheagán m
• Italian: omelette (it) f, frittata (it) f
• Japanese: オムレツ (ja) ‎(omuretsu)

• Khmer: ពងមាន់ចៀន ‎(pɔɔŋ moan ciən)
• Korean: 오믈렛 ‎(omeullet, omeulles-)
• Macedonian: омлет m ‎(ómlet), кајгана f ‎(kájgana)
• Malay: telur dadar
• Maltese: froġa
• Mongolian: өндгөн жаврай ‎(öndgön žavraj)
• Norwegian: omelett (no) m
• Persian: املت (fa) ‎(omlet)
• Polish: omlet (pl) m
• Portuguese: omelete (pt) f, fritada (pt) f
• Romanian: omletă (ro)
• Russian: омле́т (ru) m ‎(omlét), яи́чница (ru) f ‎(jaíčnica)
• Scottish Gaelic: bonnach-uighe m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: омлет

  Roman: omlet (sh)

• Spanish: tortilla francesa f, tortilla (es) f (Spain)
• Swedish: omelett (sv) c
• Thai: ไข่เจียว (th) ‎(kài-jiao), ไข่ฟู ‎(kài-fuu), ไข่ทอด ‎(kài-tɔ̂ɔt)
• Turkish: omlet (tr)
• Veps: munarič
• Vietnamese: món trứng tráng
• Volapük: moelät (vo)
• Welsh: omled m
• Yiddish: אָמלעט m ‎(omlet)

See alsoEdit

•  Category:Omelettes on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Category:Omelettes

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɔm.lɛt/

NounEdit

omelette f ‎(plural omelettes)

1. omelette

External linksEdit

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

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InterlinguaEdit

NounEdit

omelette ‎(plural omelettes)

1. omelette

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from French omelette.

NounEdit

omelette f ‎(invariable)

1. omelette

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PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

omelette f (plural omelettes)

1. Alternative form of omelete