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Etymology
Old English cycene, from a Germanic borrowing of vulgar L. cucina|cucÄ«na, from coquere âto cookâ. Cognate with Dutch keuken, German Küche, Swedish kök.
Pronunciation
IPA|/ËkɪtÊÉn/ or /ËkɪtÊɪn/
rhymes|ɪtÊÉn, rhymes|ɪtÊɪn
audio|en-us-kitchen.ogg|Audio (US)
Noun
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- A room or area for preparing food.
- An admixture of languages spoken to convey meaning between non-native speakers.
#* Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines 1886: Sir Henry and Umbopo sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and kitchen Zulu, in low voices, but earnestly enough.
- African American slang for the nape of a persons hair line, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look
Translations
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Albanian: kuzhinë f
Arabic: ARchar|Ù
طبخ (maá¹baÏ)
Basque: sukalde
Bosnian: kuhinja f
Bulgarian: кÑÑ
Ð½Ñ (kúkhnja) f
Chinese: å¨æ¿ (chú fáng)
Croatian: kuhinja f
Czech: kuchynÄ f
Danish: køkken
Dutch: keuken
Esperanto: kuirejo
Estonian: köök
Ewe: dzodoÆe
Finnish: keittiö
French: cuisine#French|cuisine f
German: Küche f
Greek: μαγειÏείο (magjirÃo) n, κοÏ
ζίνα (kuzÃna) f
Hebrew: ×××× m
Hungarian: konyha
Icelandic: eldhús n
Indonesian: dapur n
Irish: cistin f
Italian: cucina f
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Japanese: å°æ (ã ãã©ãã, daidokoro), å¨æ¿ (ã¡ã
ãã¼ã, chÅ«bÅ)
Latin: coquina f
Northern Sami: gievkkan
Old English: cycene f
Old High German: chuhhina f
Persian: FAchar|آشپزخاÙÙ (ÄÅ¡pazkhÄneh)
Polish: kuchnia f
Portuguese: cozinha f
Russian: кÑÑ
Ð½Ñ (kúkhnja) f
Scottish Gaelic: seòmar-bruich m, seòmar-deasaichaidh m, cidsin m
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: кÑÑ
иÑа f
:Roman: kuhinja#Serbian|kuhinja f
Slovak: kuchyÅa f
Slovenian: kuhinja f
Spanish: cocina f
Swahili: jiko
Swedish: kök n
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