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English [ edit ]
Shrimp dumplings.
Etymology [ edit ]
A folk word, first attested in c. 1600s, apparently from a Norfolk dialect, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from some Low German word or from dialectal dump ( “ lump ” ) (first attested in the late 1800s), + -ling ( diminutive suffix ) .
Pronunciation [ edit ]
dumpling (plural dumplings )
( cooking ) A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough. [from 17th c.]
By restriction, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.
( endearing ) A term of endearment .
My little dumpling .
( mildly vulgar ) A piece of excrement.
2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated
Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings .
Hyponyms [ edit ]
Derived terms [ edit ]
Translations [ edit ]
food
Afrikaans: kluitjie
Albanian: brumçë (sq)
Arabic: دَامْبْلِنْغ m ( dāmblinḡ )
Armenian: խմորագնդիկ ( xmoragndik )
Azerbaijani: klyotek , mantı
Bashkir: манты ( mantı )
Belarusian: пяльме́нь m ( pjalʹmjénʹ )
Bulgarian: кне́дла (bg) f ( knédla )
Burmese: ပေါက်စီ (my) ( paukci ) ( Chinese baozi ) , ဖက်ထုပ် (my) ( hpakhtup )
Catalan: mandonguilla (ca) f , nyoqui (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 餃子 / 饺子 ( gaau2 zi2 )
Dungan: бозы ( bozɨ )
Mandarin: 餃子 / 饺子 (zh) ( jiǎozi )
Czech: knedlík (cs) m , haluška f
Danish: dumpling
Dutch: knoedel (nl) m
Esperanto: knedliko , pastobulo
Estonian: klimp (et)
Finnish: nyytti (fi) ( wrapped ) , taikinanyytti ( wrapped ) , myky (fi) ( filling mixed in with dough )
French: quenelle (fr) f , ravioli (fr) m
Galician: bolo do pote m
Georgian: პელმენი ( ṗelmeni ) ( Russian pelmeni )
German: Knödel (de) m , Kloß (de) m , Klops (de) m
Hindi: गुलगुला (hi) ( gulgulā )
Hungarian: galuska (hu) , nokedli (hu) , gombóc (hu)
Hunsrik: Klos m
Icelandic: bögglar m pl , deigboltar m pl
Italian: gnocco (it) m
Japanese: 餃子 (ja) ( ぎょうざ, gyōza ) , ギョーザ (ja) ( gyōza )
Kazakh: тұшпара ( tūşpara ) , мәнті ( mäntı )
Korean: 만두 (ko) ( mandu ) , 교자 (ko) ( gyoja ) ( gyoza ) , 펠메니 (ko) ( pelmeni ) ( Russian pelmeni )
Kyrgyz: манты (ky) ( mantı ) , мантуу ( mantuu ) , чүчбара (ky) ( cücbara )
Lao: ກ້ຽວ ( kiāu )
Latin: globulus m , offa f
Latvian: ķiļķens m , klimpa f
Lithuanian: kukulis m , gružulis m , kankolas m , apskritainis m
Luxembourgish: Kniddel f
Macedonian: кне́дла f ( knédla )
Maori: motumotu
Mongolian: банш (mn) ( banš ) , бууз (mn) ( buuz ) , ᠪᠠᠩᠰᠢ ( baŋsi )
Navajo: kʼíneeshbízhii
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: melbolle
Persian: منتو ( mantu ) , دامبلینگ ( dâmpling )
Polish: pieróg (pl) m
Portuguese: bolinho (pt) m
Russian: пельме́нь (ru) m ( pelʹménʹ ) , клёцка (ru) f ( kljócka ) ( no filling ) , галу́шка (ru) f ( galúška ) ( no filling ) , манты́ (ru) f pl ( mantý ) , манту́ (ru) f or n ( mantú ) , маньто́у (ru) f or n ( manʹtóu )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: нокла f , ноклица f , кне́дла m , кне́дл m , гомбоца f
Roman: nokla (sh) f , noklica (sh) f , knédla (sh) m , knédl m , gomboca (sh) f
Slovak: knedľa f , haluška f
Slovene: cmok (sl) m
Spanish: empanadilla (es) f , albóndiga (es) f , ñoqui (es) m
Swedish: klimp (sv) c , knyte (sv) n , dumpling (sv) c , pirog (sv) c
Tajik: тушбера ( tušbera )
Tatar: манты ( mantı )
Thai: เกี๊ยว (th) ( gíao )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: mantı (tr)
Tuvan: манчы ( mançı )
Ukrainian: варе́ник (uk) m ( varényk ) , галу́шка (uk) f ( halúška ) ( no filling ) , пирі́г (uk) m ( pyríh ) ( Western Ukraine ) , ву́шко n ( vúško )
Uyghur: جۇۋاۋا ( juwawa ) , بەنشىر ( benshir ) , بەنشىرە ( benshire ) , مانتا ( manta )
Uzbek: chuchvara (uz) , manti (uz)
Vietnamese: mằn thắn (vi) , vằn thắn (vi) , hoành thánh (vi)
Yiddish: קניידל n ( kneydl )
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary , Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Further reading [ edit ]
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