different between beach vs lasagna

English

Etymology

From Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from Old English bæ?e, be?e (“beck, brook, stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *baki, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?og- (“flowing water”).

Cognate with Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), Swedish bäck (“stream, brook, creek”). More at batch, beck.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /bit??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bi?t??/
• Rhymes: -i?t?
• Homophone: beech

Noun

beach (plural beaches)

1. The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
2. A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
3. (Britain dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
4. (motorsports, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap

Synonyms

• (horizontal strip of land adjoining water): sand, strand, backshore

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???
• ? Zulu: ibhishi

Translations

Verb

beach (third-person singular simple present beaches, present participle beaching, simple past and past participle beached)

1. (intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, "Salt Water," [1]

     When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea.

2. (transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 90, [2]

     It seems that some honest mariners of Dover, or Sandwich, or some one of the Cinque Ports, had after a hard chase succeeded in killing and beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from the shore.

   • 1974, Homer, Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Doubleday, Book Two, lines 530-31, p. 53,

     Great Aías led twelve ships from Sálamis

     and beached them where Athenians formed for battle.

3. (of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.

Synonyms

• strand

Derived terms

• unbeached

Translations

Anagrams

• Bache, bache

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English beach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bit?/

Noun

beach m (plural beachs)

1. (Congo) port where goods and passengers embark and debark
   • 2006 March 14, Tshiala David, Baisse du trafic au beach Ngobila entre Kinshasa et Brazzaville, in Le Potentiel:

     C’est ainsi qu’elles ont décidé d’embarquer leurs marchandises dans des pirogues motorisés qui desservent les beachs privés entre les deux rives du fleuve Congo.

   • 2007, Jean-Alexis M'Foutou, La langue française au Congo-Brazzaville:

     Le Beach de Brazzaville hier réputé lieu de violence, de viols et de braquages, présent aujourd’hui des conditions de sécurité plutôt rassurantes.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos (compare Middle Welsh beg-egyr, byg-egyr (“drone”)), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ik-, *b?oyk- (compare Czech v?ela, Latin f?cus), enlargement of *b?ey- (compare Welsh by-daf (“beehive”), English bee).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?ax/

Noun

beach f (genitive singular beiche, nominative plural beacha)

1. bee (insect)

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "beach" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ik-, *b?oik-, enlargement of *b??-, *b?ei-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?x/

Noun

beach m (genitive singular beacha, plural beachan)

1. bee
2. beehive
3. wasp

Synonyms

• seillean (“bee”)

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• “beach” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “beach”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN, page 31
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

English

Alternative forms

• lasagne

Etymology

From Italian lasagna (and its plural lasagne), possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum (“cooking pot”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (lásanon, “trivet or stand for a pot”). Others argue the Italian lasagna originally derived from the Arabic ??????????? (lawz?naj, “almond cake”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /l??zæn.j?/, /l??z?.nj?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l??z?.nj?/, /l??s?.nj?/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /l??z?.nj?/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /l??s??.nj?/, /l??z??.nj?/

Noun

lasagna (plural lasagnas or lasagne or lasagnes)

1. A flat sheet of pasta.
2. An Italian baked dish comprising layers of such pasta with various ingredients (usually a meat ragù (chiefly Bolognese), a fish ragù or a vegetarian/vegetable ragù with bechamel sauce)
3. (by extension) A combination or layering of things.
   • 1996, Lance Olsen, Time Famine: A Novel

     Kristofer'd gotten it through his head shortly after their arrival to swim naked in the lake, such as it was, and his skin blemished into a lasagna of red hives, white welts, and disarming yellowish spots.

   • 2008, Body & Soul

     Unfortunately, typical mattresses are often a lasagna of nonbiodegradable synthetics, pesticides, and potentially carcinogenic toxins.

   • 2011, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die for, Open Court Publishing (?ISBN), page 280:

     It's sort of a lasagna of ideas about time and dreams.

   • 2013, Molly Harper, How to Run with a Naked Werewolf, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN)

     “Everything about us is just one layer of lies after another. We're a lasagna of lies. This is a terrible basis for a relationship.”

Usage notes

• In Italian, lasagna refers to one flat sheet of pasta and its plural form, lasagne, refers to the dish. This distinction is also observed in English, but only rarely in American English.
• When the dish is referred to as lasagne (rather than lasagna), lasagnes is sometimes found as the plural form, referring to multiple dishes or varieties.

Translations

Anagrams

• Alagnas, Laganas, galanas

Italian

Etymology

Possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum (“cooking pot”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (lásanon, “trivet or stand for a pot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?za?.?a/
• Hyphenation: la?sà?gna
• Rhymes: -a??a

Noun

lasagna f (plural lasagne)

1. (cooking, food) a food made of flat sheets of pasta alternated with condiments
2. (cooking, chiefly in the plural) a dish of lasagna

Derived terms

• lasagne alla bolognese (“Bolognese lasagna, Bologna-style lasagna, lasagna with Bolognese”)
• lasagne di pesce (“fish lasagna, lasagna with fish ragù”)
• lasagne di verdure (“vegetarian lasagna, lasagna with vegetable ragù”)