different between cuisine vs tandoor

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”), from Vulgar Latin *cocina, from Latin coquina. Doublet of kitchen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw??zi?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

cuisine (countable and uncountable, plural cuisines)

1. (countable, uncountable) A characteristic style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin.

   French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant styles of cooking.

   The restaurant is noted for its excellent cuisine.

2. (uncountable) Synonym of culinary art: The art of preparing food, generally.
3. (countable, dated) A kitchen or cooking department.

Synonyms

• (characteristic style of preparing food): culinary art, kitchen

Derived terms

• haute cuisine
• nouvelle cuisine

Related terms

• curry

Translations

See also

• gastronomy

Dutch

Etymology

From French cuisine, from Old French cuisine, from Vulgar Latin *coc?na, from Latin coqu?na. Doublet with keuken.

Noun

cuisine f (uncountable)

1. cuisine; a characteristic style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin

   Synonym: keuken

Related terms

• haute cuisine

French

Etymology

From Old French cuisine, from Vulgar Latin *coc?na, from Latin coqu?na, whence also Catalan cuina, Galician cociña, Italian cucina, Portuguese cozinha, Spanish cocina, and ultimately English kitchen, Dutch keuken and German Küche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?i.zin/

Noun

cuisine f (plural cuisines)

1. kitchen

2. cuisine

Derived terms

• couteau de cuisine
• cuisine de rue
• fille de cuisine

Related terms

• cuire
• cuisson
• cuit

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: lakizin
• ? English: cuisine
• ? Malagasy: lakozy

Verb

cuisine

1. first-person singular present indicative of cuisiner
2. third-person singular present indicative of cuisiner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cuisiner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cuisiner
5. second-person singular imperative of cuisiner

Further reading

• “cuisine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Albanian language must be considered here since kuzinë in albanian language literary in translation means "where you cook".

Ku - Where,Zinë or Zien - Cook

English

Etymology

From Hindustani ?????? (tand?r) / ?????? (tand?r), from Persian ????? (tan?r), from Middle Persian [script needed] (tnwl /tan?r/, “oven”), ultimately from Akkadian ???????? (tin?ru), all meaning (clay) oven. According to the Dehkhoda Dictionary, the Akkadian word consists of the parts tin meaning "mud" and nuro/nura meaning "fire" and is mentioned as early as in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, c.f. also Avestan tanûra and Pahlavi tanûr. Doublet of athanor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæn?d??(?)/, /t??n?d??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

tandoor (plural tandoors)

1. A cylindrical clay oven used, in the cuisine of the Caucasus, Middle East, and Indian subcontinent, to make flat bread, or to cook meat.
   • 2001, Martin Hughes, World Food: India (Lonely Planet), page 53

     You can cook naan in a normal oven, but the results will inevitably disappoint; even Indians generally wait to savour them in restaurants, as very few homes are equipped with a tandoor.

Related terms

• tandoori

Translations

Anagrams

• donator, odorant, tornado

Portuguese

Noun

tandoor m (plural tandoors)

1. tandoor (cylindrical clay oven used in Indian cuisine)

Spanish

Noun

tandoor m (plural tandoor)

1. tandoor