curry

See also: Curry

English

Fish head curry, a popular dish in Singapore

The title page of a 1780 reprint of the 1390 work Forme of Cury

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: kŭrʹē, IPA^(key): /ˈkʌɹ.i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌɹ.i/, /ˈkɝ.i/

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌɹi

Etymology 1

1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”), 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

• currey (obsolete)
• currie (archaic)

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

4. (incel slang, derogatory) An Indian
5. (piracy slang) someone who begs for invite for private trackers on /ptg/(private tracker general) of 4chan

Derived terms

• curry bread
• currycel
• curry chip
• currycomb
• curry house
• Curryland
• curry leaf
• curryless
• currylike
• Curry Mile
• curry muncher
• curry-muncher
• curry nigger
• curry paste
• curry plant
• curry powder
• curry puff
• curry roux
• curry stuff
• curry tree
• currywhore
• currywurst
• cuzza
• give curry
• give someone curry
• retort curry

 

Descendants

• → Chinese: 咖哩
• → Czech: kari
• → Danish: karry
  • → Icelandic: karrí
• → Dutch: kerrie
• → Irish: curaí
• → Japanese: カレー (karē)
  • → Korean: 카레 (kare)
  • → Marshallese: kare
• → Korean: 커리 (keori)
• → Scottish Gaelic: coiridh
• → Russian: ка́рри (kárri)
• → Slovak: karí
• → Swedish: kurry
• → Turkish: köri
• → Vietnamese: cà ri

Translations

dish

• Afrikaans: kerrie m
• Arabic: كاري (ar) m (kārī)
• Belarusian: ка́ры n (káry)
• Bengali: তরকারী (bn) (torkari), সালন (bn) (śalon)
• Brunei Malay: kari
• Bulgarian: къ́ри n (kǎ́ri)
• Burmese: ဟင်း (my) (hang:)
• Catalan: curri m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 咖喱 (gaa³ lei¹)

  Hakka: 咖哩 (kâ-lî)

  Hokkien: 咖喱 or 咖哩 (zh-min-nan) (ka-lí)

  Mandarin: 咖喱 (zh) (gālí, kālǐ), 咖哩 (zh) (kālǐ) (Taiwan)

• Czech: kari (cs) n, karí (cs) n
• Dutch: kerrieschotel (nl), curryschotel
• Esperanto: kareaĵo
• Finnish: curry (fi), currypata
• French: curry (fr) m
• German: Curry (de) n
• Greek: κάρυ n (káry)
• Gujarati: શાક n (śāk)
• Irish: curaí m
• Italian: curry (it) m
• Japanese: カレー (ja) (karē)
• Kannada: ಮೇಲೋಗರ (kn) (mēlōgara)
• Khmer: ការី (km) (kaarii)
• Korean: 카레 (ko) (kare), 커리 (keori)
• Lithuanian: karis m
• Macedonian: кари n (kari)
• Malagasy: karia (mg)
• Malay: kari (ms)
• Malayalam: കറി (ml) (kaṟi)
• Pashto: کاری (kâri)
• Persian: خورش کاری (xoreš kâri)
• Polish: curry (pl) n
• Portuguese: curry (pt) m, caril (pt)
• Romanian: curry (ro) m
• Russian: ка́рри (ru) n (kárri)
• Santali: ᱩᱛᱩ (utu)
• Scottish Gaelic: coiridh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏ри m

  Roman: kȁri (sh) m

• Slovene: kari m
• Spanish: curri m
• Swedish: curry (sv)
• Tagalog: kari
• Tamil: கறி (ta) (kaṟi)
• Telugu: కూర (te) (kūra)
• Thai: แกงกะหรี่ (th) (gɛɛng-gà-rìi)
• Vietnamese: cà ri (vi), ca ri (vi)

sauce or relish

• Arabic: كَارِي (ar) m (kārī)
• Armenian: կարի (hy) (kari), կարրի (karri)
• Assamese: আঞ্জা (añza), তৰকাৰী (torkari)
• Belarusian: ка́ры n (káry)
• Bengali: কারি (bn) (kari)
• Brunei Malay: kari
• Bulgarian: къ́ри n (kǎ́ri)
• Burmese: ငါးပိချက် (my) (nga:pi.hkyak)
• Catalan: curri m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 咖喱 (gaa³ lei¹)

  Hakka: 咖哩 (kâ-lî)

  Hokkien: 咖喱 or 咖哩 (zh-min-nan) (ka-lí)

  Mandarin: 咖喱 (zh) (gālí, kālǐ), 咖哩 (zh) (kālǐ) (Taiwan)

• Czech: kari (cs) n
• Dutch: kerrie (nl) m, curry (nl) m
• Esperanto: kareo
• Finnish: currykastike
• French: cari (fr)
• German: Currysoße (de) f, Curry (de) n
• Greek: κάρυ n (káry)
• Gujarati: રસો m (raso)
• Hebrew: קָארִי (kari)
• Hindi: करी (hi) (karī), सालन (hi) (sālan)
• Indonesian: kari (id)
• Irish: curaí m, anlann curaí m
• Japanese: カレー (ja) (karē)
• Khmer: ការី (km) (kaarii)
• Korean: 카레 (ko) (kare), 커리 (keori)
• Lao: ກະຫລີ່ (ka lī)
• Lithuanian: karis m
• Macedonian: кари n (kari)
• Malagasy: karia (mg)
• Malay: kari (ms)
• Maltese: kari m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: karri m

  Nynorsk: karri m

• Pashto: کاری (kâri)
• Polish: curry (pl) n
• Portuguese: caril (pt)
• Russian: ка́рри (ru) n (kárri)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏ри m

  Roman: kȁri (sh) m

• Slovak: kari n
• Spanish: curry m, cari (es) m
• Swedish: curry (sv)
• Sylheti: ꠔꠞ꠆ꠇꠣꠞꠤ (torxari)
• Tagalog: kari
• Tamil: கறி (ta) (kaṟi)
• Telugu: కూర (te) (kūra)
• Thai: กะหรี่ (th) (gà-rìi), แกง (th) (gɛɛng)
• Turkish: köri (tr), köri sosu
• Ukrainian: ка́рі n (kári)
• Vietnamese: ca ri (vi), cà ri (vi), cà ry
• Yiddish: קאַרי (kari)

curry powder — see curry powder

See also

• piccalilli

• balti
• bhaji
• bhuna
• biryani
• chilli
• chutney
• dhansak
• dopiaza
• garam masala
• herb
• jalfrezi
• karahi
• korma
• madras
• makhani, makhonee
• moglai, moghlai
• naan
• pakora
• papadum, poppadum
• paratha
• pasanda
• phall
• rogan josh
• samosa
• spice
• tandoor
• tandoori
• tikka masala
• vindaloo

 

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

to cook or season with curry

• Esperanto: karei
• Finnish: maustaa currylla

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)

2. (transitive) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
   • 1610–1614, John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Valentinian”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:

     Your short horse is soon curried.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.

3. (transitive) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
4. (transitive) To beat, thrash; to drub.
   • c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii:

     I have seen him curry a fellow's carcase handsomely.

   • 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:

     […] By setting brother against brother / To claw and curry one another.

5. (transitive, figurative) To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
   • 2014 August 27, Stephanie Zacharek, “The Last of Robin Hood Wrestles with a Star's Underage Love”, in The Village Voice‎^[2], archived from the original on 2014-09-03:

     A middle-aged woman waves and calls to her, as if she, like the hungry reporters, were currying the girl's favor: Florence Aadland (Sarandon, in a wily, multilayered performance), Beverly's mother, wears an expression of maternal concern, though her self-serving motives become increasingly clear.

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

• curry favor

Translations

to groom a horse

• Albanian: kashais (sq)
• Bulgarian: тимаря (timarja)
• Catalan: estrijolar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: roskammen (nl)
• Finnish: sukia (fi)
• German: kardätschen, striegeln (de)
• Hungarian: csutakol (hu)
• Irish: cíor
• Italian: strigliare (it)
• Ottoman Turkish: قاشاغیلامق (kaşağılamak)

to dress leather

• Bulgarian: щавя (štavja)
• Finnish: muokata (fi)
• German: nasszurichten
• Irish: leasaigh

to beat or thrash

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鞭打 (zh) (biāndǎ)

• German: dreschen (de)
• Russian: би́ть (ru) n (bítʹ)

curry favor — see curry favor

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} congraciarse con (es)

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.

Derived terms

• uncurry

 

Translations

to perform currying upon

• Finnish: suorittaa Curry-muunnos
• German: schönfinkeln, curryen
• Polish: rozwijać funkcję impf, rozwinąć funkcję pf

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, section 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, section 34:

     A sermon is soon curryed over.

Etymology 5

Noun

curry (plural curries)

1. Obsolete form of quarry.

Further reading

• curry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “curry”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuri/ [ku.ri]
• Rhymes: -uri

Noun

curry inan

1. curry powder
2. curry dish

Declension

Declension of curry (inanimate, ending in vowel)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	curry	curry-a	curry-ak
ergative	curry-k	curry-ak	curry-ek
dative	curry-ri	curry-ari	curry-ei
genitive	curry-ren	curry-aren	curry-en
comitative	curry-rekin	curry-arekin	curry-ekin
causative	curry-rengatik	curry-arengatik	curry-engatik
benefactive	curry-rentzat	curry-arentzat	curry-entzat
instrumental	curry-z	curry-az	curry-ez
inessive	curry-tan	curry-an	curry-etan
locative	curry-tako	curry-ko	curry-etako
allative	curry-tara	curry-ra	curry-etara
terminative	curry-taraino	curry-raino	curry-etaraino
directive	curry-tarantz	curry-rantz	curry-etarantz
destinative	curry-tarako	curry-rako	curry-etarako
ablative	curry-tatik	curry-tik	curry-etatik
partitive	curry-rik	—	—
prolative	curry-tzat	—	—

Further reading

• “curry”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English curry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʏ.ri/

• Audio:

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• 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

• curryketchup
• currypoeder
• curryschotel
• curryworst

 

Finnish

Alternative forms

• karri

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑrːi/, [ˈkɑ̝rːi]
• Rhymes: -ɑrːi
• Syllabification^(key): cur‧ry

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
abessive		currytta	curryitta
instructive		—	curryin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of curry (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative curryni curryni accusative nom. curryni curryni gen. curryni genitive curryni curryjeni partitive curryani curryjani inessive curryssani curryissani elative currystani curryistani illative curryyni curryihini adessive curryllani curryillani ablative curryltani curryiltani allative currylleni curryilleni essive currynani curryinani translative currykseni curryikseni abessive curryttani curryittani instructive — — comitative — curryineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative currysi currysi accusative nom. currysi currysi gen. currysi genitive currysi curryjesi partitive curryasi curryjasi inessive curryssasi curryissasi elative currystasi curryistasi illative curryysi curryihisi adessive curryllasi curryillasi ablative curryltasi curryiltasi allative curryllesi curryillesi essive currynasi curryinasi translative curryksesi curryiksesi abessive curryttasi curryittasi instructive — — comitative — curryinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative currymme currymme accusative nom. currymme currymme gen. currymme genitive currymme curryjemme partitive curryamme curryjamme inessive curryssamme curryissamme elative currystamme curryistamme illative curryymme curryihimme adessive curryllamme curryillamme ablative curryltamme curryiltamme allative curryllemme curryillemme essive currynamme curryinamme translative curryksemme curryiksemme abessive curryttamme curryittamme instructive — — comitative — curryinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative currynne currynne accusative nom. currynne currynne gen. currynne genitive currynne curryjenne partitive curryanne curryjanne inessive curryssanne curryissanne elative currystanne curryistanne illative curryynne curryihinne adessive curryllanne curryillanne ablative curryltanne curryiltanne allative curryllenne curryillenne essive currynanne curryinanne translative curryksenne curryiksenne abessive curryttanne curryittanne instructive — — comitative — curryinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative currynsa currynsa accusative nom. currynsa currynsa gen. currynsa genitive currynsa curryjensa partitive curryaan curryansa curryjaan curryjansa inessive curryssaan curryssansa curryissaan curryissansa elative currystaan currystansa curryistaan curryistansa illative curryynsa curryihinsa adessive curryllaan curryllansa curryillaan curryillansa ablative curryltaan curryltansa curryiltaan curryiltansa allative currylleen curryllensa curryilleen curryillensa essive currynaan currynansa curryinaan curryinansa translative currykseen curryksensa curryikseen curryiksensa abessive curryttaan curryttansa curryittaan curryittansa instructive — — comitative — curryineen curryinensa

Derived terms

compounds

• currykana
• currykastike
• currypata
• currytahna
• kookoscurrykastike

 

Further reading

• “curry”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.ʁi/

• Audio:

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Noun

curry m (plural currys)

1. curry

   Synonym: cari

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English curry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛr.ri/, /ˈkar.ri/
• Rhymes: -ɛrri, -arri

Noun

curry m (invariable)

1. curry; curry powder

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English curry, from Tamil கறி (kaṟi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.rɘ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arɘ
• Syllabification: cu‧rry
• Homophone: kary

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

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.ɾi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.ɾi/

Noun

curry m (uncountable)

1. (Brazil) curry powder (mixture of spices used in Asian cooking)

   Synonym: caril

2. (Brazil) curry (dish made with curry powder)

Romanian

curry

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French curry, from English curry, from Tamil கறி (kaṟi).

Noun

curry m (uncountable)

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

Spanish

Alternative forms

• curri

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English curry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuri/ [ˈku.ri]
• Rhymes: -uri
• Syllabification: cu‧rry

Noun

curry m (plural currys)

1. curry

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “curry”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

curry c (uncountable)

1. curry powder

Declension

Declension of curry

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	curry	currys
	definite	curryn	curryns
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Derived terms

• currypasta (“curry paste”)

References

• curry in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• curry in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• curry in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)