different between gravy vs sambar
gravy
English
Etymology
From Middle English gravey, greavie, gravy; probably from greaves, graves (“the sediment of melted tallow”), from Old French grave, apparently a misspelling of grané (“stew, spice”), from grain (“spice”). See also greaves.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???e?vi/
- Rhymes: -e?vi
Noun
gravy (usually uncountable, plural gravies)
- (countable, uncountable) A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
- (Britain, Canada) A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
- (Southern US) A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce
- (Britain, Canada) A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
- (uncountable, Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta.
- (uncountable, India, Singapore) Curry sauce.
- 1879, The Sunday at Home, Volume 26, page 342:
- With this the hostess poured two or three spoonfuls of the gravy of the curry on to the rice opposite to each person.
- 1906, Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, "Pa Senik and his Son-in-Law Awang", Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 59-60:
- Now it seems that Pa Senik was a little deaf. Awang noticed that his father-in-law sometimes poured the gravy of his curry on his rice and that sometimes he sucked it up.
- 1992, Khamm?n Khonkhai, The Teachers of Mad Dog Swamp
- This is strained with a piece of cloth or a strainer and the green liquid forms the gravy of the curry.
- 2007, Geok Boi Lee, Classic Asian Noodles, Marshall Cavendish ?ISBN, page 158
- Return flaked fish to curry gravy and bring to the boil.
- 1879, The Sunday at Home, Volume 26, page 342:
- (uncountable, informal) Unearned gain.
- (uncountable, informal) Extra benefit.
- The first thousand tickets and the concessions cover the venue and the band. The rest is gravy.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:gravy.
Derived terms
- good gravy
- gravy boat
- gravy train
Descendants
- ? Welsh: grefi
Translations
See also
- sauce
- brown sauce
References
- gravy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Middle English
Noun
gravy
- Alternative form of gravey
Spanish
Noun
gravy m (uncountable)
- gravy
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sambar
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Hindi ????? (s?mbhar), ????? (s?mbhar), from Sanskrit ????? (?ambara, “a kind of deer”).
Alternative forms
- sambhar
- sambhur
- sambur
Noun
sambar (plural sambars)
- (zoology) A Southeast Asian deer, Cervus unicolor.
Synonyms
- (Cervus unicolor): Rusa unicolor
Etymology 2
From Tamil ???????? (c?mp?r), from Marathi ?????? (s?mbh?r)/?????? (s?mb?r, “curry”), from Old Marathi ?????? (s??b?ra), from Sanskrit ?????? (sambh?rá, “materials required for a particular purpose, provision; collection of spices”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *samb??rás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *samb??rás, from Proto-Indo-European *sem-b?or-ó-s, from *sem- (“together, one”) +? *b?er- (“to bear, carry”) +? *-ós (deverbal suffix). Doublet of Anbar.
Noun
sambar (uncountable)
- (cooking) A food preparation common in southern India and Sri Lanka, made of vegetables and lentils (usually pigeon peas, also called toor dal) in a spicy tamarind and lentil flour soup base.
Further reading
- Sambar deer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Sambar (dish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Cervus unicolor on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Anagrams
- Abrams, Bamars, abrams, ambars
Portuguese
Etymology
samba +? -ar
Verb
sambar (first-person singular present indicative sambo, past participle sambado)
- (intransitive) to samba
Conjugation
Further reading
- “sambar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
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