porridge

English

Alternative forms

• parritch (Scotland)
• porage, porrige (both obsolete)

Etymology

Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ/
• (New York City, Philadelphia) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒɹɪdʒ

Noun

porridge (usually uncountable, plural porridges)

1. A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.

   Eat your porridge while it's hot!

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:

     There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.

   1. (chiefly British) Oat porridge; oatmeal.
   2. (Malaysia, Singapore) Rice porridge; congee.
2. (British, slang, uncountable) A prison sentence.

   Just do your porridge and keep your head down.

3. (rare) A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.

Derived terms

• do porridge
• keep one's breath to cool one's porridge
• Laba porridge
• pease porridge
• pine nut porridge
• plain as porridge
• plum-porridge
• porridge belly
• porridge drawer
• porridge pot
• porridge-stick
• porridge time
• pumpkin porridge
• red bean porridge
• rice porridge
• save one's breath to cool one's porridge
• Teochew porridge
• water-porridge

Translations

breakfast cereal dish — see also oatmeal

Afrikaans: pap (af) Arabic: ثَرِيد m (ṯarīd), عَصِيدَة (ar) f (ʕaṣīda) Armenian: շիլա (hy) (šila) Azerbaijani: sıyıq Bashkir: бутҡа (butqa) Basque: ahi (eu), morokil Belarusian: ка́ша f (káša) Biatah Bidayuh: bubur Bulgarian: ка́ша (bg) f (káša) Catalan: farinetes (ca) f pl Chechen: худар (xudar) Chinese: Cantonese: 粥 (zuk1) (rice), 麥片 / 麦片 (mak6 pin3-2) (oats, oatmeal) Mandarin: 粥 (zh) (zhōu) (rice, buckwheat, oats, etc.) Cornish: yos kergh m Czech: kaše (cs) f Danish: grød (da) c Dutch: pap (nl) c Esperanto: griaĵo, kaĉo (eo) Estonian: puder (et) Ewe: akatsa, koko Faroese: greytur m Finnish: puuro (fi) French: bouillie (fr) f, porridge (fr) m, gruau (fr) m (Canada) Galician: papa (gl) f, papas f pl Georgian: ფაფა (papa) German: Brei (de) m Greek: χυλός (el) m (chylós), κουάκερ (el) n (kouáker) Ancient: ἀθάρη f (athárē), πτισάνη f (ptisánē) (made from barley), πόλτος (póltos) (made from wheat flour) Haitian Creole: labouyi Hebrew: דייסה f (daysá) Hungarian: kása (hu) Indonesian: bubur (id) Irish: leite f Italian: porridge (it) m, pappa d'avena f, zuppa d'avena f Japanese: ポリッジ (ja) (porijji), 粥 (ja) (かゆ, kayu, かい, kai, しゅく, shuku) (rice, buckweat, oats, etc.), 雑炊 (ja) (zousui) Kazakh: ботқа (botqa) Khiamniungan Naga: wâkù Khmer: បបរ (km) (bɑbɑɑ) Kikuyu: ucoro Korean: 포리지 (poriji) Kyrgyz: ботко (ky) (botko) Latin: puls f, pappa f Latvian: putra f Lithuanian: košė f Luhya: bhuyu ? Luo: nyuka Macedonian: каша (mk) f (kaša) Malay: bubur (ms) Malayalam: കഞ്ഞി (ml) (kaññi) (congee) Maori: pāreti, pākū Mongolian: будаа (mn) (budaa) Nahuatl: pozōlli Nanai: балан (balan) Nivkh: ераӄ (jeraq) Northern Sami: buvru Norwegian: grøt (no) m Old English: brīw m Persian: فرنی (fa) (ferni), حریره (fa) (harire), هریسه (fa) (harise) Polish: owsianka (pl) f Portuguese: mingau (pt) (Brazil), papa (pt) Punjabi: ਦਲੀਆ ? (dalīā) Quechua: api Romanian: păsat (ro) n, terci (ro) n Russian: ка́ша (ru) f (káša), овся́нка (ru) f (ovsjánka) Scots: parritch Scottish Gaelic: lite f, brochan m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: каша f Roman: kaša (sh) f Skolt Sami: hutt Slovak: kaša f Slovene: káša (sl) f Sotho: papa ? Southern Altai: ботко (botko) Spanish: gachas (es) f pl, puches (es) m, papilla (es) f Swahili: uji (sw) class 11 Swedish: gröt (sv) c Tagalog: lugaw Tajik: шӯла (šüla) Tatar: ботка (tt) (botka) Tausug: biyugbug Telugu: అంబలి (te) (ambali) Tocharian B: onkarño ? (made from rice) Ukrainian: ка́ша f (káša) Uzbek: boʻtqa (uz) Venda: vhuswa Vietnamese: cháo (vi) Welsh: uwd (cy) m Xhosa: ípápa class 9/10 Zulu: (please verify) ípápa ?, (please verify) umdokwe ?

slang: prison sentence

Finnish: kakku (fi) Hungarian: börtönbüntetés (hu) Polish: odsiadka (pl) f

See also

• congee
• gruel
• oatmeal
• stiff porridge

Further reading

• porridge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Périgord

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English porridge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.ʁidʒ/

• Audio:

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Noun

porridge m (plural porridges)

1. porridge

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English porridge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.rid͡ʒ/

Noun

porridge n (uncountable)

1. porridge

Declension

Declension of porridge

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	porridge	porridgeul
genitive-dative	porridge	porridgeului
vocative	porridgeule