culinary

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French culinaire, itself a borrowing from Latin culīnārius, from culīna (“kitchen”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlɪn(ə)ɹi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlɪˌnɛɹi/, /ˈk(j)ulɪˌnɛɹi/, /ˈkʊlɪˌnɛɹi/

Adjective

culinary (comparative more culinary, superlative most culinary)

1. Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.

   Her culinary skills were excellent.

   • 2016 June 16, Nandita Ravi, “Fast and feast responsibly this Ramadan!”, in The Times of India‎, archived from the original on 25 February 2017:

     Sizzling kebabs, delicious kheer and the ever popular haleem -it's a clear sign that Ramadan sure brings with it a culinary awakening. At the same time, Ramadan is all about discipline and faith.

2. Of or relating to a kitchen.

Synonyms

• (of or related to the act or art of cooking): cooking; coquinary (rare); culinarian (rare); magirological, magiristic, magiric (obsolete)

Derived terms

• culinarian
• culinarily
• culinary art
• culinary linguistics
• ethnoculinary
• medicoculinary
• nonculinary

Translations

relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking

Afrikaans: culinaire Albanian: kulinar f Arabic: مَطْبَخِيّ (maṭbaḵiyy) Catalan: culinari Chinese: Mandarin: 烹飪 / 烹饪 (zh) (pēngrèn), 烹調 / 烹调 (zh) (pēngtiáo) Czech: kuchařský m, kulinářský m, kuchyňský (cs) m Danish: kulinarisk Dutch: culinair (nl) Finnish: kulinaarinen French: culinaire (fr) m or f German: kulinarisch (de) Greek: μαγειρικός (el) m (mageirikós), εδεσματολογικός m (edesmatologikós) Ancient Greek: μαγειρικός (mageirikós) Hebrew: קולינרי m (Kuli'nari) Hungarian: étkezési (hu) Icelandic: matreiðslu Indonesian: kuliner Italian: culinario (it) m Japanese: 料理の (ja) (りょうりの, ryōri-no) Khmer: ម្ហូប (km) (mboub) Korean: 부엌용의 (bueok-yong-ui) Latin: culīnārius Malay: kulinari Norwegian: Bokmål: kulinarisk Nynorsk: kulinarisk Polish: kulinarny (pl) Portuguese: culinário (pt) Russian: кулина́рный (ru) (kulinárnyj), (e.g. of cookbooks) пова́ренный (ru) (povárennyj) Spanish: culinario (es) Swedish: kulinarisk (sv) Tagalog: sa pagluluto, pagluluto Thai: สูทศาสตร์ (th) (sòot-sàat) Ukrainian: кухарський (kuxarsʹkyj), куховарський (kuxovarsʹkyj), куліна́рний (kulinárnyj)

See also

• cook
• kiln
• recipe

References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.

Further reading

• Wikipedia article on food.

Anagrams

• uranylic