margarine

See also: Margarine

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French margarine, from acide margarique (“margaric acid”), from Ancient Greek μάργαρον (márgaron, “pearl”), in allusion to its pearly lustre, with the suffix -ine, influenced by glycérine (“glycerine”). French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul named margaric acid after its pearl-like crystallization.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒə.ɹɪn/, /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒəˌɹin/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmɑː.d͡ʒəˈɹiːn/, /ˈmɑː.d͡ʒə.ɹɪn/, (dated) /ˌmɑː.ɡəˈɹiːn/

• Audio (US):

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• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ.ɡɐ.ɾɪn/
• The reasons why ⟨-g-⟩ is pronounced as /dʒ/ remain unclear.

Noun

margarine (usually uncountable, plural margarines)

2. A spread, manufactured from a blend of vegetable oils (some of which are hydrogenated), emulsifiers etc, mostly used as a substitute for butter.
3. (dated) The solid ingredient of human fat, olive oil, etc.

Synonyms

• marg/marge (colloquial)
• oleomargarine

Derived terms

• antimargarine
• margarined
• margarineless
• margarinelike
• margariney

Related terms

• Margaret (and various forms, q.v.)
• margarita
• margarite
• marguerite

Descendants

• → Japanese: マーガリン (māgarin)
• → Korean: 마가린 (magarin)
• → Tagalog: margarin

Translations

spread

Afrikaans: kunsbotter, margarien Albanian: margarinë (sq) f Arabic: سَمْن نَبَاتِيّ m (samn nabātiyy) Hijazi Arabic: مَارْقَرين m (mārgarīn), سَمن نباتي m (samin nabāti) Armenian: մարգարին (hy) (margarin) Azerbaijani: marqarin Belarusian: маргары́н m (marharýn) Bengali: মার্জারিন (marjarin) Bulgarian: маргари́н m (margarín) Catalan: margarina f Chinese: Cantonese: 植物牛油 (zik6 mat6 ngau4 jau4) Mandarin: 植物黃油 / 植物黄油 (zh) (zhíwù huángyóu), 人造奶油 (zh) (rénzào nǎiyóu), 麥淇淋 / 麦淇淋 (zh) (màiqílín), 瑪琪琳 / 玛琪琳 (zh) (mǎqílín), 馬芝蓮 / 马芝莲 (zh) (mǎzhīlián), 植物牛油 (zh) (zhíwù niúyóu) Czech: margarín (cs) Danish: margarine (da) c Dutch: margarine (nl) m Esperanto: margarino sg Estonian: margariin Faroese: margarin n Finnish: margariini (fi) French: margarine (fr) f Georgian: მარგარინი (ka) (margarini) German: Margarine (de) f Greek: μαργαρίνη (el) f (margaríni) Hebrew: מַרְגָּרִינָה (he) f (margarina) Hindi: मार्जरीन (mārjarīn) Hungarian: margarin (hu) Hunsrik: Margarin f Icelandic: smjörlíki (is) n Ido: margarino (io) Indonesian: margarin (id) Ingrian: päähkänävoi Irish: buíoc m, margairín m Italian: margarina (it) f Japanese: マーガリン (ja) (māgarin) Kazakh: маргарин (margarin) Khmer: សេតវនីត (seetaʼvɔniit) Korean: 마가린 (ko) (magarin) Kyrgyz: маргарин (margarin) Lao: ເນີຍໄຂສັດ (nœ̄i khai sat) Latvian: margarīns m Lithuanian: margarinas m Macedonian: маргарин (mk) m (margarin) Malay: marjerin Maori: pata parau, māheri Norwegian: Bokmål: margarin m Nynorsk: margarin m Persian: مارگارین (fa) (mârgârin) Polish: margaryna (pl) f Portuguese: margarina (pt) f Romanian: margarină (ro) f Russian: маргари́н (ru) m (margarín) Scottish Gaelic: margarain m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: марга̀рӣн m Roman: margàrīn (sh) m Slovak: margarín m Slovene: margarina (sl) f Spanish: margarina (es) f Swedish: margarin (sv) n Tagalog: margarina (tl) Tajik: маргарин (margarin) Thai: เนยเทียม (th) (nəəi-tiiam) Turkish: margarin (tr) Turkmen: margarin Ukrainian: маргари́н m (marharýn) Urdu: مارجرین (mārjarīn) Uzbek: margarin (uz) Vietnamese: bơ thực vật (vi)

Verb

margarine (third-person singular simple present margarines, present participle margarining, simple past and past participle margarined)

1. (transitive) To spread or cover (something) with margarine.

   Synonym: (informal) marge

   • 1952 May 15, “Pretty Hostess Adds Finishing Touch”, in C[harles] L[ee] Blanton, Jr., editor, Daily Sikeston Standard, volume 40, number 200, Sikeston, Mo.: Sikeston Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:

     Putting the finishing touches on her party dinner, this attractive hostess does the last minute job of margarining her rolls to serve piping hot to her guests.

   • 1993, Helen Dunmore, chapter 16, in Zennor in Darkness, London: Penguin Books, published 1994, →ISBN, page 190:

     She is margarining a slice of bread, rubbing the grease carefully into the crumb.

   • 1998, Andrea Ashworth, chapter 9, in Once in a House on Fire, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 135:

     Now that she was back in the land of the living, she took to margarining our toast again.

   • 2014, Judith Felsenfeld, “The Fugitive”, in Blaustein’s Kiss: Stories, Rhinebeck, N.Y.: Epigraph Publishing Service, →ISBN, pages 123–124:

     He has been totally occupied since we sat down, margarining every inch of his roll, likewise his baked potato, salting down everything in sight.

Further reading

• margarine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

margarine

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Etymology

From French margarine, from Ancient Greek μάργαρον (márgaron).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɑɡəˈʁiːnə], [mɑɡɑˈʁiːnə]
• Rhymes: -iːnə
• Hyphenation: mar‧ga‧ri‧ne

Noun

margarine c (singular definite margarinen, plural indefinite margariner)

1. margarine

Declension

Declension of margarine

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	margarine	margarinen	margariner	margarinerne
genitive	margarines	margarinens	margariners	margarinernes

Derived terms

nouns

• diætmargarine c
• margarinefabrik c
• plantemargarine c
• stegemargarine c

References

• “margarine” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French margarine, from Ancient Greek μάργαρον (márgaron, “pearl”) with the suffix -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑr.ɣaːˈri.nə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mar‧ga‧ri‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

Noun

margarine f (plural margarines)

1. margarine

Descendants

• → Indonesian: margarin

French

Etymology

From acide margarique (“margaric acid”), from Ancient Greek μάργαρον (márgaron, “pearl”) with the suffix -ine, influenced by glycérine. French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul named margaric acid after its pearl-like crystallization.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʁ.ɡa.ʁin/

• Audio (France):

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Noun

margarine f (plural margarines)

1. margarine

Descendants

• → Catalan: margarina
• → Czech: margarín
• → Danish: margarine
• → Dutch: margarine
• → English: margarine (see there for further descendants)
• → German: Margarine (see there for further descendants)
• → Italian: margarina
• → Norwegian Bokmål: margarin
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: margarin
• → Polish: margaryna
• → Portuguese: margarina
• → Romanian: margarină
• → Spanish: margarina
• → Swedish: margarin
• → Turkish: margarin

Further reading

• “margarine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

margarine f pl

1. plural of margarina

Anagrams

• marginare, marginerà, ramingare, rimangerà