spaghetti western

See also: spaghettiwestern, Spaghetti Western, and spaghetti Western

English

Alternative forms

• spaghetti Western, Spaghetti Western

Etymology

From spaghetti +‎ western, pasta being a famously Italian product.

Noun

spaghetti western (plural spaghetti westerns)

1. (film) A motion picture depicting a story of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, notably in Italy.

   Synonyms: Italo-western, spaghetti

   Hypernyms: Eurowestern, western, movie, film

   “A Fistful of Dollars” and “Once Upon a Time in the West” are famous spaghetti westerns.

   • 2010, Howard Hughes, Spaghetti Westerns‎^[1], Oldcastle Books, →ISBN:

     Over the years Django Kill has gained a reputation as the most violent Spaghetti Western and, though the film has tempered with age, it's still one of the oddest genre contributions.

Translations

motion picture set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company

• Arabic: فِلْم سْبَاغِيتِي m (film sbāḡītī), غَرْبِيّ سْبَاغِيتِي m (ḡarbiyy sbāḡītī), سْبَاغِيتِي وَسْتَرْن m (sbāḡītī wastarn)
• Basque: spaghetti western
• Bulgarian: спаге́ти-уе́стърн m (spagéti-uéstǎrn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 意大利式西部片 (yìdàlìshì xībùpiàn)

• Danish: spaghettiwestern c
• Dutch: spaghettiwestern (nl) m
• Esperanto: itala vakera filmo
• Estonian: spagetivestern
• Finnish: italowestern, spagettiwestern
• French: western spaghetti (fr) m
• Georgian: იტალო-ვესტერნი (iṭalo-vesṭerni)
• German: Italowestern (de) m, (rare) Spaghettiwestern m
• Hebrew: מַעֲרָבוֹן סְפָּגֶטִי m (ma'arávon spagéti)
• Hungarian: spagettiwestern, makaróniwestern
• Icelandic: spagettívestri m
• Indonesian: Koboi Italia
• Italian: spaghetti western m, western all'italiana m
• Japanese: マカロニ・ウェスタン (makaroni wesutan)
• Korean: 스파게티 웨스턴 (seupageti weseuteon), 이탤리언 웨스턴 (itaellieon weseuteon)
• Norwegian: spaghetti-western m
• Persian: وسترن اسپاگتی (vestern espâgeti)
• Portuguese: spaghetti western m, faroeste espaguete m, faroeste macarrônico m
• Russian: спаге́тти-ве́стерн (ru) m (spagétti-véstern)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шпагѐти-вѐстерн m, италѝја̄нскӣ вѐстерн m

  Roman: špagèti-vèstern m, italìjānskī vèstern m

• Spanish: spaghetti western m
• Swedish: spaghettivästern c
• Ukrainian: спаге́ті-ве́стерн m (spahéti-véstern)
• Vietnamese: phim Cao bồi Ý
• West Frisian: spagettywestern

Further reading

• Spaghetti Western on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English, from spaghetti (in turn borrowed from Italian) + western.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spaˈɡet.ti ˈwɛ.stern/
• Hyphenation: spa‧ghét‧ti‧wè‧stern

Noun

spaghetti western m (invariable)

1. (film) spaghetti western, Italo-western (western film produced in Europe by an Italian company)

   Synonym: western all'italiana

   Hypernyms: western, film, pellicola