English Explanatory Dictionary

fry

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. A method of cooking food.
  2. To cook (something) in hot fat.
  3. To cook in hot fat.
  4. To simmer; to boil.
  5. To affect or be affected by extreme heat or current.
  6. To suffer because of too much heat.
  7. To execute, or be executed, by the electric chair.
  8. To destroy (something, usually electronic), often with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
  9. To entertain (a person) greatly; to make to laugh thoroughly.
noun
  1. A long, thin fried piece of cut potato.
  2. A long, thin fried piece of other foods.
  3. A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
  4. The liver of a lamb.
  5. A lamb or calf testicle.
  6. A state of excitement.
noun
  1. Young fish; fishlings.
  2. Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
  3. A swarm, especially of something small.
  4. The spawn of frogs.
noun
  1. A kind of sieve.
  2. A drain, usually made of brushwood.
verb
  1. To make a brushwood drain.
name
  1. A surname.
name
  1. Initialism of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Pronunciation

frī /fɹaɪ/ en-us-fry.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-FRY.wav

Word forms

fry fries frying fried

Etymology

From Middle English fryen, borrowed from Old French frire, from Latin frīgō (“to roast, fry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵ- (“to roast, fry”). Cognate with Ancient Greek φρύγω (phrúgō, “to roast, bake”), Sanskrit भृज्जति (bhṛjjati, “to roast, grill, fry”), भृग् (bhṛg, “the crackling of fire”). Replaced native Middle English hirsten, from Old English hierstan (“to fry”).

Synonyms

chip french fry fry-up liver prairie oyster Rocky Mountain oyster tendergroin

Derived words

air-fry bigger fish to fry deep-fat-fry deep-fry dry-fry fish to fry flash-fry fried fryable frybread fry cook fryer frying frying pan fry jack frypan fry pan fry pie fry someone's bacon fry up frywood have other fish to fry mind-frying more important fish to fry overfry pan-fry parfry refry shallow-fry unfry stir-fry a few fries short of a Happy Meal calf fries cottage fries curly fry fish fry french fry fries fry sauce glottal fry Hangtown fry home fry lamb fries lamb's fry one fry short of a Happy Meal three fries short of a Happy Meal tornado fry Ulster fry vocal fry fryling sac fry small fry Frytown

Translations

Albanian: skuq Arabic: قَلَى Armenian: տապակել Aromanian: frigu Assamese: ভাজা Assamese: ভজা Azerbaijani: qızartmaq Azerbaijani: qovurmaq Bangi: kanga Basque: frijitu Belarusian: сма́жыць Biatah Bidayuh: gureng Bulgarian: пържа Burmese: ကြော် Catalan: fregir Tedim Chin: kang Chinese Cantonese: 煎 Chinese Cantonese: 炒 Chinese Mandarin: 煎 Chinese Mandarin: 炒 Cornish: fria Czech: smažit Czech: usmažit Dalmatian: fregur Danish: stege Danish: brase Dongxiang: khuru Dutch: bakken Dutch: braden Esperanto: friti Estonian: praadima Finnish: paistaa Finnish: käristää French: faire frire Galician: frixir Galician: fritir Galician: estrelar German: braten Greek: τηγανίζω Ancient Greek: τηγανίζω Ancient Greek: ταγηνίζω Hebrew: טיגן \ טִגֵּן Hindi: तलना Hungarian: süt Irish: frioch Italian: friggere Japanese: (油で)揚げる Japanese: 炒る Japanese: 煎る Kazakh: қуыру Khmer: ជៀន Khmer: ឆា Korean: 튀기다 Central Kurdish: سوور کردنەوە Breton: fritez Bulgarian: пържени картофи Finnish: ranskalaiset perunat French: frite Galician: pataca frita Greek: τηγανητή πατάτα Italian: patata fritta Italian: patatine fritte Malayalam: വറ Mongolian: шарсан төмс Polish: frytka Portuguese: frita Romanian: cartofi prăjiți Romanian: cartofi pai Spanish: papas fritas Spanish: patatas fritas Telugu: వేపుడు Turkish: kızartma
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