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This page has 29 definitions of curry with English translations in 10 languages. Curry is a noun and verb. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .

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English curry definition
Fish head curry, a popular dish in Singapore
The title page of a 1780 reprint of the 1390 work Forme of Cury

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English[1][2]), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”),[2] from Middle French cuyre (“to cook”) (from which also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere, present active infinitive of coquō.

Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of Richard II of England.

Alternative forms

Noun

curry (countable and uncountable, plural curries)

  1. One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce.
    Synonym: (rhyming slang) Ruby Murray
  2. A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavoured with curry powder.
  3. Curry powder.
    Synonym: curry powder
Derived terms
 
Descendants
Translations
curry powder — see curry powder
See also
 

Verb

curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)

  1. (transitive) To cook or season with curry powder.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English currayen, from Old French correer (“to prepare”), presumably from Vulgar Latin *conredare, from Latin com- (a form of con- (“with; together”)) + a verb derived from Proto-Germanic *raidaz. More at ready.

Verb

curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)

  1. (transitive) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
  2. (transitive) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
  3. (transitive) To beat, thrash; to drub.
  4. (transitive) To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
Usage notes

The sense "To win or gain favour" is most frequently used in the phrases "to curry favour (with)" and "to curry [someone's] favour".

Derived terms
Translations
curry favor — see curry favor
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Etymology 3

Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry.

Verb

curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)

  1. (transitive, computing) To perform currying upon.
    • 2011, Zachary Kessin, Programming HTML5 Applications: Building Powerful Cross-Platform Environments in JavaScript, "O'Reilly Media, Inc." (→ISBN), page 21:
      The easiest way to curry parameters is to create a function that takes a parameter block and returns a function that will call the original function with the presupplied parameters as defaults […] .
    • 2015, Leonardo Borges, Clojure Reactive Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd (→ISBN), page 194:
      Next, we curry the avg function to 3 arguments and put it into an option.
Translations

Etymology 4

Possibly derived from currier, a common 16th- to 18th-century form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Possibly influenced by scurry.

Verb

curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To scurry; to ride or run hastily
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
    • 1608, George Chapman, The Conspiracie, and Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron 2.245
      I am not hee that can ... by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles.
    • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
      All these shots shall curry or finish their ranges in times equal to each other.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To hurry.
    • 1676, Andrew Marvell, Mr. Smirke 34
      A sermon is soon curryed over.

Etymology 5

Noun

curry (plural curries)

  1. Obsolete form of quarry.

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Hannah Glasse, Glasse’s Art of Cookery, 1747
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “The Origins of ‘Curry’ (Is it really English?)”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎[1], accessed 8 October 2010, archived from the original on 29 September 2011

Dutch curry definition

Etymology

Borrowed from English curry.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʏ.ri/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: cur‧ry
  • Rhymes: -ʏri

Noun

curry m (plural curry's, diminutive curry'tje n)

  1. the spicy condiment curry powder
    Synonyms: kerrie, kerriepoeder
  2. a curry dish
    Synonym: kerrieschotel
  3. curry ketchup
    Synonym: curryketchup

Derived terms

 

Finnish curry definition

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English curry, itself from Tamil கறி (kaṟi).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑrːi/, [ˈkɑrːi]
  • Rhymes: -ɑrːi
  • Syllabification: kar‧ri

Noun

curry

  1. curry, curry powder (south Asian spice mix)
  2. curry (a dish made using this spice mixture)

Declension

Inflection of curry (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative curry curryt
genitive curryn curryjen
partitive currya curryja
illative curryyn curryihin
singular plural
nominative curry curryt
accusative nom. curry curryt
gen. curryn
genitive curryn curryjen
partitive currya curryja
inessive curryssa curryissa
elative currysta curryista
illative curryyn curryihin
adessive currylla curryilla
ablative currylta curryilta
allative currylle curryille
essive curryna curryina
translative curryksi curryiksi
instructive — curryin
abessive currytta curryitta
comitative — curryineen
Possessive forms of curry (type valo)
possessor singular plural
1st person curryni currymme
2nd person currysi currynne
3rd person currynsa

French curry definition

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle French from multiple sources including English curry, all ultimately derived from Tamil கறி (kaṟi).

Pronunciation

Noun

curry m (plural currys)

  1. curry
    Synonym: cari

Further reading

Italian curry definition

Noun

curry m (invariable)

  1. curry; curry powder

Polish curry definition

Etymology

Borrowed from English curry, from Tamil கறி (kaṟi).

Pronunciation

Noun

curry n (indeclinable)

  1. curry (dish)
  2. curry powder

Further reading

  • curry in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • curry in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese curry definition

Noun

curry m (uncountable)

  1. (Brazil) curry powder (mixture of spices used in Asian cooking)
  2. (Brazil) curry (dish made with curry powder)

Synonyms

Romanian curry definition
curry

Noun

curry m (uncountable)

  1. curry powder (mixture of spices)
  2. curry (dish)

Spanish curry definition

Pronunciation

Noun

curry m (plural currys)

  1. curry

Further reading

Swedish curry definition

Pronunciation

Noun

curry c (uncountable)

  1. a curry
  2. curry powder

Declension

Declension of curry 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative curry curryn — —
Genitive currys curryns — —
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