seasoning

English

Etymology 1

From season +‎ -ing.

Noun

seasoning (countable and uncountable, plural seasonings)

1. (cooking) Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
2. (figurative, by extension) Anything added to increase enjoyment.
3. A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
4. (archaic) An alcoholic intoxication.

   Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”

5. In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.
6. The air drying of wood.

Synonyms

• (intoxication): drunkenness

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:seasoning

Derived terms

• beau monde seasoning
• Montreal seasoning
• Montreal steak seasoning

 

Translations

cooking ingredient

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Adyghe: please add this translation if you can
• Afrikaans: geurmiddels
• Albanian: lezetim m
• Arabic: بَهَار (ar) m (bahār), تَابِل m (tābil), تَابَل m (tābal), أَبْزَار m (ʔabzār)
• Azerbaijani: dadlıq
• Basque: gozagarri
• Belarusian: прыпра́ва f (prypráva)
• Bengali: চাট্নি (caṭni)
• Bulgarian: подпра́вка (bg) f (podprávka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 調味料／调味料 (zh) (tiáowèiliào), 調料／调料 (zh) (tiáoliào)

• Czech: koření (cs) n
• Danish: krydd (da)
• Faroese: krydd n
• Finnish: mauste (fi), höyste (fi)
• French: assaisonnement (fr) m, épice (fr) f
• Galician: adubo (gl) m, condimento (gl) m
• Georgian: სუნელი (suneli), საკმაზი (saḳmazi)
• German: Gewürz (de) n, Würze (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄρτυμα n (ártuma)

• Icelandic: bragðbætir (is) m
• Indonesian: bumbu (id)
• Italian: condimento (it) m
• Japanese: 調味料 (ja) (ちょうみりょう, chōmiryō)
• Kabuverdianu: tenper, ténpra
• Karakhanid: اُتيَم (otyam)
• Korean: 양념 (ko) (yangnyeom), 조미료(調味料) (ko) (jomiryo)
• Latin: condīmentum n
• Malay: perasa
• Maltese: tħawwir m
• Persian: چاشنی (fa) (čâšni)
• Polish: przyprawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: tempero (pt) m, condimento (pt) m
• Russian: припра́ва (ru) f (pripráva), спе́ция (ru) f (spécija)
• Serbo-Croatian: začin (sh) m
• Slovak: korenie n
• Slovene: začimba (sl) f
• Spanish: aliño (es) m
• Swedish: krydda (sv) c
• Tagalog: panlig-ing, pampalasa, pampasarap, lig-ing
• Thai: เครื่องปรุงรส (krʉ̂ʉang-bprung-rót)
• Turkish: baharat (tr)
• Ukrainian: припра́ва f (prypráva)
• Urdu: مصالحہ (masālha)
• Uzbek: ziravor (uz), dorivor (uz)
• Vietnamese: gia vị (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: sesnin m
• West Coast Bajau: please add this translation if you can
• Wolof: please add this translation if you can
• Yámana: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
• Yup'ik: please add this translation if you can
• Zazaki: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: isithokelo

air drying of wood

• French: sèchage ?
• German: lagern zum Trocknen
• Gernam: Ablagern ?
• Italian: stagionatura (it) ?
• Portuguese: condicionar (pt)
• Spanish: secado (es) ?

Etymology 2

From Middle English seasonyng, present participle of Middle English sesounen (“to season”), equivalent to season +‎ -ing.

Verb

seasoning

1. present participle and gerund of season

Anagrams

• snogaines