Omelette

English

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An omelette.

Alternative forms

• omelet (chiefly US)

Etymology

From French omelette, from alemette, from alemelle (“knife blade”), probably derived from la lemelle, from Latin lamella (“thin plate”).

Pronunciation

• (Australia, UK) IPA: /ˈɒm.lət/, SAMPA: /"Qm.l@t/

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• (US) enPR: ŏm'ə-lĭt, ŏm'lĭt, IPA: /ˈɑməlɪt/, /ɑmlɪt/, SAMPA: /Am@lIt/, /AmlIt/

Noun

Omelette (plural Omelettes)

1. A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with cheese, chives or other foodstuffs.

Derived terms

• you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs

Translations

dish made with beaten eggs

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: ձվածեղ (hy) (jvaçeġ) Azeri: qayğanaq (az) Bosnian: omlet (bs) m. Catalan: truita (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 煎蛋饼 (cmn) (jiāndànbǐng) Croatian: please add this translation if you can Czech: omeleta (cs) f. Danish: omelet (da) c. Dutch: omelet (nl) f. Esperanto: omleto (eo) Finnish: munakas (fi), omeletti (fi) French: omelette (fr) f. Georgian: ომლეტი (ka) (omleti) German: Omelett (de) n. Greek: ομελέτα (el) (omeléta) Hebrew: חביתה (he) (havita) f. Hungarian: omlett (hu), tojáslepény (hu) Ido: omleto Indonesian: telur dadar Interlingua: omelette

Italian: omleta f., frittata (it) f. Japanese: オムレツ (ja) (omuretsu) Korean: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: омлет (mk) (ómlet) m., кајгана (mk) (kájgana) f. Malay: please add this translation if you can Maltese: froġa (mt) Norwegian: omelett (no) m. Polish: omlet m. Portuguese: omelete f., fritada (pt) f. Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: омлет (ru) (omlét) m. Scottish Gaelic: bonnach-uighe (gd) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: омлет m., кајгана f. pl. Roman: omlet m., kajgana f. pl. Spanish: tortilla f. (Spain), tortilla de huevos Swedish: omelett (sv) c. Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: omlet [-ti] Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Volapük: moelät

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɔm(ə)lɛt(ə)/, SAMPA: /"Om(@)lEt(@)/

Noun

Omelette f. (plural Omelettes)

1. Omelette

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Interlingua

Noun

omelette

1. omelettear:omelette